The idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is completely lost on a lot of businesses these days. Like I said, the only thing I can think of is that it's some desperate people trying to justify their job. More does not always mean something is better. Simplicity is a wonderful thing.
If we don't randomly remove and add features then the customer might try a new product out of curiosity, so we'll make the interface slightly harder to use every three months so they have to spend hours finding the stuff they want.
I hate that phrase when it comes to code, because when people say it they're usually talking about code that only 1 guy in the company even remembers exists, is completely unmaintainable and a security hole just waiting to happen (if it doesn't already contain some). Real programmers rarely have a low workload and there's usually a growing mountain of technical debt that no one has the time to get to.
But when it comes to UI/UX design people, I think you just shouldn't employ those fulltime, because they'll spend 80% of their time coming up with bullshit that most actual users will hate just to justify their paycheck.
The idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is completely lost on a lot of businesses these days. Like I said, the only thing I can think of is that it's some desperate people trying to justify their job.
More does not always mean something is better. Simplicity is a wonderful thing.
If we don't randomly remove and add features then the customer might try a new product out of curiosity, so we'll make the interface slightly harder to use every three months so they have to spend hours finding the stuff they want.
I hate that phrase when it comes to code, because when people say it they're usually talking about code that only 1 guy in the company even remembers exists, is completely unmaintainable and a security hole just waiting to happen (if it doesn't already contain some). Real programmers rarely have a low workload and there's usually a growing mountain of technical debt that no one has the time to get to.
But when it comes to UI/UX design people, I think you just shouldn't employ those fulltime, because they'll spend 80% of their time coming up with bullshit that most actual users will hate just to justify their paycheck.