User-Driven Applications for Research and Science: Building Programs for Fields with Open Scenarios and Unpredictable User Actions

Conclusion

This book is not about some algorithm or programming product. It is about the new philosophy of user–program relations and how this change of philosophy triggers the development of programs that allow users to get much more from the applications.

The main idea of user-driven applications is in the passing of control of programs from developers to users. It is unthinkable in the realm of standard design, so the new programs are designed on a new basis—on the movability of each and all of the screen objects. All the demonstrated programs use my algorithm of movability, but I stress all the time that the most valuable result is not the algorithm itself but the consequences of using it. There can be different algorithms of movability, but ...