Good Design - 3/3

The discipline of Usability, particularly in website development, puts massive efforts into research to develop user-friendly websites - websites that work well.

The essence of Good Design is that one design can achieve a given purpose better than another “Lesser “Design. It is assumed of course that there is a designer.

The role of the designer is to take graphics, text, concepts, technology and interweave them to achieve the client’s objectives. It is a skilled role.

One of the simple things to do in this process is to test. A designer will put two designs side-by-side and then do what is called split-testing. Split-testing a website is when the software displays two alternating designs and measures the difference in human response. Which ever design produces more of the desired result (either a sign-up, or sale) gets approved and the less successful design gets abandoned.

An average design may produce average results but a Good Design that produces better results can have a big impact on the bottom line. Much kudos to the designer!

This is all quite a simple process in the digital world. We just create a digital image, a digital sales process and a digital result. Technically complex but relatively simple to create and manipulate such things in the digital space.

There is a striking similarity between this process and the theory of Evolution.

According to the “powers that be” - that is, the ones with white suits, thick glasses and very high IQ’s, who know all the right answers to their own questions - the idea goes that over insanely long periods of time a similar process occurred in nature. The claims of proponents of Evolution are many and varied, and while they change and evolve themself from time to time as it suits them, the essence of their claims are that Good Design has occurred by chance.

Sure, just as we can tweak a website here and there, nature has mechanisms to handle change and survival in a micro-evolutionary manner, but the macro-evolutionary thing (such as where a monkey becomes a human) is a little like saying that the website appeared on the Internet by accident and the money in the bank is just a natural consequence of this chance event. Spare me days, please!

Supposedly, the first living cell appeared by magic accident. The cell then morphed into a tadpole, fish, bird, monkey and then man and woman. While this is oversimplfying their dogma, religion, theory a bit, the one non-negotiable in all their communications is that there can never be a Designer. Well Designed insects, birds, animals, people, nature, the world, in fact the whole universe is finely tuned and well designed in a tightly integrated creation simply screams “Designer! Designer!”

The paradigm that Evolutionists always insist upon before they open their mouths, simply precludes the possibility that the Designer can ever exist, or even be considered.

Oh how foolish to frame our understanding of our very existence in such a way as to preclude the possibility that we are wrong. It really just reeks of pride to me. The Good Book warns against this trap, constantly. Solomon says the followign about seeking wisdom from God as opposed to trying to work it all out on our own:

My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,
So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding,
If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Then you will understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.
For the LORD gives wisdom;
Proverbs 2:1-6a

Folly leads to self-perpetuating deceptions, such as evolutionary thought.

The Lord gives us wisdom however when we turn to Him as the source of all Good Design. That’s definitely the VICTUS IN AMBITUS way.