Leonard Rattini

Building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house.

To have a house built, the first person we see is a certified home architect. We wouldn’t go to a carpenter, or an electrician, or a plumber, first, because they don’t know all our city’s environmental housing codes. The tradesmen don’t draw up the blueprints either. Each performs their respective jobs by what the architect’s blueprint dictates.
Before the house can be built, and the tradesmen can do their work, the city needs to approve the home’s blueprint and its related metadata paperwork.
Businesses that want a computer application built should also see a certified application designer first. Just because some smoe went to Barnes and Noble and learned how to write HTML software, does not qualify himself as a computer architect any more than an electrician is a home’s architect. Because there are no blueprint design safeguards in the computer industry many applications are designed incorrectly.
When a home’s architect acquires a city approval, he next meets the home owner to be, with his prepared blueprints. The master blueprint the architect first shows, is the overall layout of the home to be built. The blueprint identifies only each named room within the outer walls of the future home. Each enclosed room within, is described with brief descriptors such as: kitchen, dining/living room, master-bedroom, guest-bedroom, master-bathroom, guest-bathroom, master-closet, guest-closet, hall-closet, office, sun-room and garage. By these names alone, every person from Maine to California would understand each of these room’s purpose. As an aside, these twelve rooms are what’s in my house, omitting entry-ways and two storage attics where one contains my furnace.
Along with the master blueprint there are additional room blueprints used to see their respective detailed layouts. One such room detailed blueprint would be named “Kitchen.” Its layout shows where the refrigerator, stove, microwave, and dishwasher are located. So too, would each of the other rooms’ detail blueprints show their related layouts.
To go one step further, the home has been built and the homeowner, and family, have moved into their home. Soon after, the family fortifies their home complete with all the functional items they need for their living comfort. For example: hammers, nails and screwdrivers would be found in the garage; dry-good food-stock items, and toothpicks would found in the kitchen; underwear and socks would be found in both bedrooms; and toilet paper would be found in both bathrooms.
So too, should computer applications be logically organized and fortified. Those that I’ve come across, and I’ve seen many, aren’t.
To prove my point, we now live in our home and my wife just returned from Walmart where she had purchased several dry-good food-stock items, several steaks, one new toothbrush for our daughter’s need, and another new toothbrush for her need.
Once she pulled into the garage, she immediately went into the house to put away the items she had just purchased. She first went into the kitchen to put away the steaks in the refrigerator and the dry-good food-stock items into the food-cabinet. Next, she went into our daughter’s bathroom (known as the guest-bathroom) to put our daughter’s new toothbrush into our daughter’s all-purpose cabinet-drawer. Lastly, my wife went into our master-bathroom to put her new toothbrush into her cosmetic-drawer.
As time passes, the foods that were purchased are used-up for upcoming meals. To cook the steaks, my wife went into the kitchen to the refrigerator to find them. To cook some beans, she went to the food-cabinet to find it. To use her new toothbrush, my wife went into our master-bathroom, then next she went to her cosmetic-drawer to find it.
When our daughter was to use her new toothbrush, she went into the guest-bathroom, then next she went to her all-purpose-drawer to find it. I don’t think anyone would say this isn’t a logical approach to locate all these items mentioned.
The problem with computer applications is that on their main blueprint page, they failed to show all their rooms. And yet on their main blueprint they show their liked named refrigerators, screwdrivers and toilet paper. These items don’t belong on the main blueprint and most people from Maine to California would not be aware of these faux-pas. Only skilled computer architects would be aware of this illogical design.

I ask, does Goodreads have their "rooms" clearly identified on their user homepages? Also, why do they include their liked named toothpicks, screwdrivers and toilet paper on their user's home page? This doesn't make logical sense!

Leonard Rattini, CCP (Google "ICCP" to know of my qualification)

Another parallel to a home. Would you tell someone, "To brush your teeth, the toothpaste is located in the garage." Many computer applications are designed this way!!