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Someone mentioned Google cloud console (or AWS console) looks crazy and intimidating. Perhaps to a novice. But for experienced folks it is pretty ok.

• PaulHoule 1y ago
  In my mind the complexity of the AWS console is the complexity of what it controls. The patterns used in it are very standard and boring patterns for enterprise applications and if they tasked me to make an interface for that system I'd make one that looks almost exactly like it because... that's how you do it. What gets me are applications for "creative" people. I was in this hackathon [1] https://prod.cis.cornell.edu/dgas-first-game-jam-gives-game-developers-chance-level https://prod.cis.cornell.edu/dgas-first-game-jam-gives-game-... where I used Unity for the first time and thought it was nuts, the same way I'd think Photoshop was nuts if I wasn't used to it. [1] we won! had a guy who was good at making platformers in Unity and a gal who was a good artist. I was just the startup veteran who knows the meaning of "minimum" and "viable" and how to find the intersection