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> I would love to see someone try to build something even remotely complex or valuable Why though? Just make it simple and functional. No need to get complex.
by throwaway984393 5y ago
> I would love to see someone try to build something even remotely complex or valuable
Why though? Just make it simple and functional. No need to get complex.
> I would expect that if Banking portals, EHR's, CRM's (name any other service even moderately complex) were stitched together with a series of html documents and forms, customers wouldn't be as excited about that.
Why should customer excitement force us to create over-complicated solutions?
- czhu12 5y agoBecause most software exist to provide solutions to customers and not to satisfy the developers. If you're going through a 40 page mortgage application, and an accidental page refresh loses everything you've filled in, thats not ideal. If you're trying to catch an uber, and the status isn't updated in real time, thats not ideal. If you're a customer support agent, and incoming messages require a page refresh to see, that not ideal.
- throwaway984393 5y agoThat is a great answer: because we're trying to solve users' problems. So we need to make things complex enough to solve a user's problem, and no more. I think the difficulty we run into is that last bit.