I thought this little realisation might help tech and non-techs understand each others perspectives a bit better…

I was updating some website content with my CMS and I asked my developer ‘How do you include a new nav item?’  She said, ‘You can’t create a menu item without content there already… so you have to create the content first…. derr.’ So I laughed and smiled, ‘Yeh ok.’

I forgot about that conversation until a few days later.  After much cursing I finally got some content up! Then the difference in thinking dawned on me!

My developer had the ‘database’ perspective. You have to have something there to point the navigation items at. Kinda makes sense right .

But…

I had the ‘end user’ perspective.  You have to have a nav item there (to see what lies beneath) and also to attach something to. All I see is the user interface, not the database.

Has anyone got any other examples of this miscommunication?