Someone who's spent twice the amount of their life as me working in healthcare IT had never learnt that medics should never be given the need to click more than once or ever touch a scroll bar lest they have a hissy fit.
Said colleague expressed surprise at a function of the system we're writing requiring 3 mouse clicks should be recorded as a "show stopper" UAT issue...
A lesson that should apply well beyond healthcare.
If I had my way, application developers would have their mice confiscated for one day a week on general principle.
I suppose medics etc. could even enjoy tabbing between buttons & memorizing CTRL codes. We could make the machines play early 80s rock at the same time.
Forgot I'd posted in here and dingied it.
It's really about writing a decent flowing ui structure.
All they really need is for the form to be componentised ideally saving and moving them onto the next input component with reasonable fanfare followed by a save and a sign off option.
But I suspect that would go down as well as my suggestion that a file with 3000 lines of coldfusion markup isn't clever* and was the cause of subversion merge hell.
It briefly went down to 2700 lines when I did a bit of refactoring to extract functions to other files for stuff I was changing, but then someone went and wrote new functions to do those things putting the file up to 3250 loc**.
* that's the polite version
** today I found 9 different alert box definitions in one file that all show the same message...
I think I'm just going to have to Boss the merge request approve button when I get us onto git.
This is the rant about colleagues thread yeah?
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