Re:DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
by Silhouette on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:31PM
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I think software quality has fallen in many areas - including UI/UX - as a result of widespread Internet access. It's no longer assumed that anything actually has to work when you ship it because you can always fix it with a software update later. There's no need to do real usability research before you ship because you can always spy on users later.
Unfortunately this seems to have created a culture where little that ships was really ready - at least not to the standards we used to consider acceptable. Everyone is busy pushing out new features and other visible changes every ten seconds. But somehow no-one ever finds the time to go back and fix the substandard quality that got an MVP in front of users on launch day.
Google even warned us about this years ago. Remember in its early days everything was Google XYZ Beta? It was an excuse to ship stuff with substandard quality then and it still is now. We're just less honest about it now.
I feel like this is the key point that adherents of modern development practices need to address. We've been sold a lot of stuff on the basis that it would drastically improve the user experience - but a lot of people, myself included, feel that UX actually declined in the past two decades.