Users Are From Venus. Programmers Are From Mars

Although programmers and end-users may have grown up on the same planet or in the same country or on the same block, you wouldn't know for sure just by listening to them trying to communicate with each other at work. Although they may be speaking the same language, their frame of reference is very different.

My wife read the previous post "Mantra for the day: A Folder Is Not a Menu."

She couldn't understand all of the details therein.

She did get the gist of the article however, which is that depending on the role you play in the workplace, the same word can have different meanings for different people.

If you want to know why you need to know when a folder is not a menu, read the preceding post.