iTalk with Tuohy - Interview with Nick Hampson
RPG, GUI and Responsive Design
Paul Tuohy talks with design guru Nick Hampson
Paul Tuohy talks to our very own Nick Hampson about the age-old question of whether or not RPG programmers can design GUI screens, as well as discussing how GUI has evolved to UX, what responsive design is, whether or not responsive design is a panacea and the importance of design and aesthetics.
"One of the big things I have seen with the IBM i community is that sometimes people are happy to stick with the green screen and damn anything that is not that because of one bad interface they have seen. My reality from, you know, doing green screen to graphical to mobile and all this other experience work since 1997 now is there are a lot more bad green screens out there than there are bad GUI screens. We should not ever, you know, blame one paradigm just because of one particular bad experience.” - Nick Hampson
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Nick Hampson is looksoftware & Fresche Legacy's UI/UX Modernization Expert. He has been involved in the IBM i community for 15 years, having worked with a large UK-based RPG software supplier prior to joining looksoftware in 2001. Nick is an expert in user experience, user interface, interaction and design.
Paul Tuohy has specialized in application development and training on IBM midrange systems for more than 20 years. He currently runs ComCon consultancy and is a partner in System i Developer and the RPG & DB2 Summit. He is also a technical editor for iPro Developer, the author of two books on re-engineering legacy RPG applications and iSeries Navigator, and an award-winning speaker at events around the world.
