The Richest Design Opportunity That You’ve Never Heard Of

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>>> the people making buying decisions (the IT department) and the people using the data (the hardcore analysts) weren’t the ones who stood to benefit from what the actual data was saying. "A good UX enables a lot of people to take action, which is the opposite of how things used to work," says Gheorghe. "Printing out an Excel grid doesn’t tell you what you need to act on.

This is related to the "visual programming" discussion.

It does not matter if its possible someday in the future to get non-programmers to program visually. It does not matter that the Head of International sales gets given incomprehensible spreadsheets

Its their job

The head of sales will hire programmers to pull out the data he needs (its a lucrative consultancy gig I hear). Visual programming - just learn to program.

Its like reading and writing - yes folks it is hard. It will take a long long time as an adult.

But imagine you lived next door to that Gutenberg guy and his new-fangled press. You would want to be learning to read now - not waiting for someone to invent the comic.

The Richest Design Opportunity That You’ve Never Heard Of

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