Hmm, this is intersting. I have previously thought about front end design as a way to access and suss out the users needs so that I can make a better model on t

Hmm, this is intersting. I have previously thought about front end design as a way to access and suss out the users needs so that I can make a better model on the back end (or at least plan for an extensible one) especially since the wireframes/mockups often help to get user feedback. It would be an intersting experiment to create my own project and just fiat all the user requirements. If I then broke up the front end in the same process that I do the back end it would certainly feel more manageable. Now that you have me thinking down this path, I wonder if I couldn't map a kind of UML for what messages the user wants to send the application from the browser. I'll have to pull at this a little more, but this kind of description seems both more tangible and translatable to specific elements of page design.