Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
by lmm on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:18AM
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Nah. If anything a lot of these trends are directly anti-agile, e.g. avoiding labels and using icons so that it's easier to translate your app, even though the icons take longer initially and you're never actually going to translate your app.
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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
by montjoy on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:05AM
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I’m not really arguing that. I’m saying there is a trade-off between having the common OS feature set described above (Ctrl/Cmd-select, etc) and implementing/iterating a web/mobile product quickly. Often standard UI paradigms are never implemented or implemented inconsistently. AWS, widely known for their Agile practices, might be the epitome of this with their web console. Sometimes I can sort columns by clicking on them, sometimes I can’t. Some products allow shift or control click and some do not. Etc etc. I can only assume the product teams are doing their best within their constraints but as an end user it’s a piece of suck.