{"id":63,"date":"2005-05-10T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/63"},"modified":"2005-05-10T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T04:58:27","slug":"the-business-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/63","title":{"rendered":"The business layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have all my thoughts well-formed on this yet, but I should post something lest I have a genuine lull here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to put this is basic scenario-outline form. Please leave comments to fill in some details so that we can all think about this more. (Hehe, he thinks he has readers).<\/p>\n<p>Say I want to build a weather website.<\/p>\n<p>As a technologist, I ask: what kind of database will I use? Where will I host the site? What features will I assume in the users&#8217; browsers? How can I reuse existing infrastructure and code?<\/p>\n<p>As an HCI practicioner, I ask: what sort of tasks will the user be performing? What&#8217;s the best way to scope the information presented to the user? How should the site be customizable? How can I make this more useful to more users?<\/p>\n<p>As a business developer, I ask: what is the value of this site? How can I get people to use it? Where will I get the data and labor necessary to maintain it? How can I integrate this service with others?<\/p>\n<p>One can think about business as the art and science of incorporating human values as explicit variables into system design. A proper understanding of this, then, can lead to more robust, useful and long-lived systems, building on the previous layers of HCI and raw technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have all my thoughts well-formed on this yet, but I should post something lest I have a genuine lull here&#8230; I&#8217;m just going to put this is basic scenario-outline form. Please leave comments to fill in some details so that we can all think about this more. (Hehe, he thinks he has readers). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}