Re:Enterprise UX is amazing. Change my mind
by ntsplnkv2 on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:54PM
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First, a comment - the bolding in the article is just obnoxious.
Second, I disagree. Working in enterprise software is just awful in my experience. The author talks about all the cool complex problems to be solved and learning from PMs!
But what about the shitty PMs that work you to death and don't get it? What about the annoying customers that want a certain design even though it isn't the most effective? Working with developers? In enterprise? You mean the offshore team, right? Get ready for 12 AM meetings with people that can't understand each other, many of whom are just warm bodies, taking 50 attempts for one working design.
Documentation? Really? No one reads that stuff. They want to see it working - this is UX. People want to see a physical product not read about it.
The consumer grade UX stuff is just BS in enterprise. People want to do their jobs easily. Period. New UX design for consumer grade is simple and doesn't have to do things efficiently like at work. All the major players came out with their new UX and people hate it. It does everything slower than before. Almost every project I've been on people have said "no let's use the old stuff it's simply faster" and it almost always is.
Just my two cents after 5/6 years in the industry.
Second, I disagree. Working in enterprise software is just awful in my experience. The author talks about all the cool complex problems to be solved and learning from PMs!
But what about the shitty PMs that work you to death and don't get it? What about the annoying customers that want a certain design even though it isn't the most effective? Working with developers? In enterprise? You mean the offshore team, right? Get ready for 12 AM meetings with people that can't understand each other, many of whom are just warm bodies, taking 50 attempts for one working design.
Documentation? Really? No one reads that stuff. They want to see it working - this is UX. People want to see a physical product not read about it.
The consumer grade UX stuff is just BS in enterprise. People want to do their jobs easily. Period. New UX design for consumer grade is simple and doesn't have to do things efficiently like at work. All the major players came out with their new UX and people hate it. It does everything slower than before. Almost every project I've been on people have said "no let's use the old stuff it's simply faster" and it almost always is.
Just my two cents after 5/6 years in the industry.
This post is not about whether Enterprises design good UX. This is about the author enjoying designing UX for Enterprise applications.
A good example of why you shouldn't make a comment without clicking through.
That said, the article could easily lose many people who just read it and assume they know better than the author and don't bother to click. Oh well.