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> there has been a shift to prioritize the experience of the end users I was mostly on the same page with you till I got to this phrase. My immediate reaction
by Zandikar 4y ago
> there has been a shift to prioritize the experience of the end users
I was mostly on the same page with you till I got to this phrase. My immediate reaction to this was laughing in disbelief. The internet has never been more outright hostile to end users than it is today, even when the underlying intent is morally good (Would you like some cookies?).
Devex and the web in general (back end, front end, user experience, etc) is very different than it was. It's better in many ways. It's worse in many ways too. To assert that we've "sacrificed" devex for the sake of the end user is laughable though.
- lolinder 4y agoBoth can be true at once. Huge corporations can be exploiting people for their data even while they develop new techniques to make their web applications more appealing and useful. Cookie banners can plague every website and those same websites can be more intuitive to use than ever before. I would say that the shift has been not just toward prioritizing end users but also towards prioritizing profits. The point is that developer experience is much lower down on the priorities list than it was, because we're now paid enough money that we'll suck it up and do what the business needs rather than doing the thing that's easiest for us.
- Zandikar 4y ago> Both can be true at once. Which is why I asserted both statements to be true side by side. It was in fact the entire point of my comment. Things are worse overall for the end user as a result of both divergent experiences being simultaneously true.