Re:The Decline of Usability
by ulisesrmzroche on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:35AM
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Bull. Smaller changes at a rapid pace allows for feedback. Meaningful feedback, since you get to see and play with the feature. It’s easier to know what you want once it’s concrete.
If you’re deploying continuously to a QA server, there is be no way halfass features get out in prod.
Also, no developer needs to know what everyone is doing, and is impossible to ask for it, since people need space in their head for real life problems and responsabilities, not keep track of the minutia of their peers day to day
They need to account for how that changes behavior.
It is like Agile development. Sure, adaptability is good. But it has led non-technicals to treat change as free so they now feel ok writing specs on the fly in meetings, creating half baked tickets, or changing a button's color every 5 minutes. By making change seemingly cheap, demand for it soared.
Smaller changes at a faster pace mean that no thought is being put into them and they are probably being viewed by fewer people before being deployed. In large companies that have a lot of people, that can easily mean that one developer has no idea what others are doing.
It also requires that meaningful feedback be received about them. A friend of mine has a startup and they are endlessly making small tweaks to where things are located. They aren't checking in any meaningful way how that is changing things but rather just guessing based on weekly user numbers.