> Telling expert humans what you're trying to achieve is far more useful.
Tiny little problem. You may not be able to.
Having worked in commercial, academic and government contexts, I can tell you that real life projects will always, always have some kind of hurdle to prevent you from divulging "what you're trying to do."
You might be working from a spec that only tells you what your superiors what you to know, there might be some legal or "market positioning" reason that requires you to preserve secrecy, or there might be department politics that will cause fur to fly if somebody outside your team finds out what you are really doing...
I sure hope my current stab at self-employment works out; I'd really had to go back...
It can sometimes be really hard to even communicate assuming you do have the ability to tell them everything they need to know about. I'm not sure the original poster would have been able to figure out what he should have done had he not gone down all these rabbit holes; you need to understand the true screwed-ness of visual formats to really grok it.
Tiny little problem. You may not be able to.
Having worked in commercial, academic and government contexts, I can tell you that real life projects will always, always have some kind of hurdle to prevent you from divulging "what you're trying to do."
You might be working from a spec that only tells you what your superiors what you to know, there might be some legal or "market positioning" reason that requires you to preserve secrecy, or there might be department politics that will cause fur to fly if somebody outside your team finds out what you are really doing...
I sure hope my current stab at self-employment works out; I'd really had to go back...