Design-minded
This article was written quite some time ago, but remains a visionary statement as to a perceived problem in software development… and a hopeful solution.
We are a self-propelled company representing the hybrid union of computer programming and functional design. Having extensive experience in both fields leads us to understand the former by means of the latter.
It is said that visual design requires strong “right-brain” ability, whereas programming requires a strong “left-brain” disposition—spacial awareness and linear organization, respectively. (To what degree this dichotomy is maintained by contemporary understanding of the human brain, we leave aside for the sake of simplicity.) Both these dispositions are essential in their respective fields, design and programming. However, in the field of programming, where left-brain ability is the predominant and engendered characteristic of it's practitioners, there has been a massive failure to build software in a way that can be maintained, scaled, re-used and simply understood. This failure is costing millions of dollars (including lost time and frustration) annually to everyone involved in the field of software development.
C3UI Group (self-propelled company) seeks, in a small but fervent way, to help reverse this by introducing “design-minded” programming, while making the probably controversial assertion that only individuals with strong left/right brain crossover make good computer programmers.
As the lead and founder of C3UI Group, I am offering myself as such an individual, via manifested code—expressed in over 100,000 lines of original work, as APIs (application user interfaces), as “frameworks” that offer to bring the art, beauty and simplicity back to the field of computer programming, in a form that can grow incrementally, like a tree, remain beautiful in function and never weakening.
All programming languages and frameworks, such as the C3UI Framework used by C3UI Group, that have this special “feel”, are “design-minded”, succeed where others fail, are hugely popular & greatly loved and themselves capable of evolving into becoming the essential tools-at-scale, used everywhere.
- David