# User Interface: Content vs. MetaContent
*January 2009*

Trey of lopsa.org wrote a [fantastic article](http://lopsa.org/node/1566) on the the techie vs. non-techie divide. If you are in the user-interface market, I suggest you read this. It sheds some wonderful light on this great divide.

## In Short

Ordinary Users only see and understand content in a system. Developers and Techies implicitly understand the Metadata that surrounds that content at such an intimate level that they build systems that subconsciously further the divide.

Good Stuff.