>Yes, but basically development is not about users,

I have to diagree Ed. Application developement is ONLY about the users. They asked for and will be the ones using the application. You could write the most bulletproof, robust code possible, but if the UI bites, the users will think the app bites as well.

At my office we hired a VFP developer about 1 1/2 years ago to migrate a FPD 2.6 app to VFP. He told me the same thing "The UI doesn't matter, the data is way more important". He did some prototype forms. They sucked. We fired him. If the user doesn't have the best possible interface they won't use it, or worse will resent being forced to use something they don't like.

>it's about database design, application hierarchy, foundation classes etc. Users don't know and should not know about these things and it's completely up to developer to decide what to do here. Users want an application to automate some business process, work smootly and take minimum of maintenance efforts, that's it.

Your right. Users don't know about and shouldn't need to know about database design. That's our job.

my $.02 worth.