Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks
by afarrell on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:02PM
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> Payroll might seem simple but in reality it's full of complex edge cases.
oh I would definitely have assumed so. My question is to what degree does the UI need to lay all that complexity right out for the user and to what degree can it hide it?
If humans inherently need to learn about all that complexity, then the best you can do is make it not-needlessly complicated.
> Please explain how engineers, UX designers, and product managers can "manage" such complexity.
I can't do so in the space of this text box. The answer is practically the field of software engineering.
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I'm curious what your thoughts are on https://docs.gusto.com/ Is it another "yea, this covers 95% of my use cases, but I need that last 5%" Or is it good?
oh I would definitely have assumed so. My question is to what degree does the UI need to lay all that complexity right out for the user and to what degree can it hide it?
If humans inherently need to learn about all that complexity, then the best you can do is make it not-needlessly complicated.
> Please explain how engineers, UX designers, and product managers can "manage" such complexity.
I can't do so in the space of this text box. The answer is practically the field of software engineering.
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I'm curious what your thoughts are on https://docs.gusto.com/ Is it another "yea, this covers 95% of my use cases, but I need that last 5%" Or is it good?