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“I didn't have time to write you a simple UI, so I wrote you a complicated one instead.” -- Mark Twain, paraphrased.
by slongfield 5y ago
“I didn't have time to write you a simple UI, so I wrote you a complicated one instead.” -- Mark Twain, paraphrased.
- OJFord 5y agoBlaise Pascal, translated and paraphrased. (Or at least as a lower-bound on its age anyway.) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
- SilasX 5y agoExcept today more often I see "Our devs put together a basically usable UI, then we ramped up and hired a full time UXer, and it sucks now."
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoI've seen that happen a thousand times, yes. (Slightly exaggerating, but still.) I guess we'll just have to wait until people get used to the idea that the Web is an interactive document format, not a replacement for the GUI. I'm hoping the modern SPA trends pass into the void like the Macromedia Flash UI trends did.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoAt many companies anything is a SPA now, which seems like the worst example of cargo cult mentality. It takes twice as long to develop, but with all these people who only know JavaScript you have to give them something to do.