The best applications I've ever been a part of building, measured by user satisfaction, are those where the engineers: 1. Value simple, effective systems 2. U

The best applications I've ever been a part of building, measured by user satisfaction, are those where the engineers: 1. Value simple, effective systems 2. Understand all use cases, because they use it 3. Have enough freedom to fix small things as they find them #3 is controversial sometimes, but I believe this flexibility and creative freedom for devs leads to much happier people and much better products.