Software engineers should never be allowed anywhere near UX decisions on their own.At work, I'm often in a position,where I need to chose between 'easier for th

Software engineers should never be allowed anywhere near UX decisions on their own.At work, I'm often in a position,where I need to chose between 'easier for the end user(internal)' and 'easier for the business/manager/developer/whatever'. I try my best to advocate for users most of the time,even if it complicates some things on the implementation side of things. Most technical people,if allowed,would make things far more difficult than they need to be. Not sure what went wrong at MS, however they keep making it more and mote difficult with no apparent good reason. Even the documentation websites are so confusing,even Oracle starts looking good in comparison... I remember a discussion with my colleague,a BA, who argued that people should just fill in a few of those extra fields. Yes,I said, it's easy for you to say this,because you'll just pull a report on these fields,while the users will be doing this hundreds of times a week...