User Experience Is More Important Thank You Think
In modern software development, multiple disciplines are involved, such as requirements engineering, product ownership, testing, and, of course, the software development team.
Often, companies focus on the functional and non-functional requirements and measure how fast the development team can implement solutions to fulfill those requirements.
While this allows for measuring something, it isn’t measuring everything.
Success is not only defined by fulfilling requirements.
The more we focus on requirements and their implementation, the more we neglect one of the most important things when it comes to software development -Â user experience.
It is one of the most, if not the most, important aspects of software development.
In B2C, the user continuously decides whether to continue using the product or go to your competitor. In B2B, the same decision is often made slower, but a bad user experience will lead to fewer sales in the future.
Whenever we implement features in our code base, we need to ensure that the new feature integrates well with the existing part of the software and that the software remains simple and intuitive.
The more a software matures, the higher the risk of feature overload.
Sometimes, simple things like providing feedback when a user presses a button get overlooked in a rush to fulfill as many requirements as possible within a day or two.
With that said, I want to mention this week’s video, where I show how to disable a button in Blazor after the user has clicked it to improve the user experience.
Next time you feel rushed, treat the user experience well when working on a new feature in your codebase.
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