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Had a discussion with a fellow coworker about users experience.
This guy actually trying to convince me that the backend is more important for ux then the ui. And this guy is a senior with over 12 years experience. Damn this one is really stupid 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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  • 1
    What were his arguments
  • 1
    @alexbrooklyn well basicly:

    - He has a lot of experience (classic argument)

    - The user will sooner or later feel it if the backend is shitty (what the actual fuck?)
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    @Nino9612 That guy must be a big fan of strawman arguments
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    well...if the user has to wait 10 seconds for the backend to give an answer I guess the experience will not be very good...Or if data are plain wrong.

    That's the only argument I could find in his favour.
    But nah...
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    The backend is the foundation of the app. No matter how well designed the frontend is, it is impossible to have a good UX if the application doesn't work on a fundamental level.

    However, beyond simply working as expected, there's really no other input that the backend has on UX.
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    User experience isn't just about what they see and interact with, it's about the whole end to end service they receive.
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    I sort of agree with him, to a point. In my experience at least, if the backend is complete crap, then sooner or later it's going to break / do something odd / take ages to fulfill a request, etc. which will result in crappy UX no matter how you design the front-end.

    Not sure I'd go as far as saying that makes it *more* important however.
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    @deviloper im with you on that one but his statement was that backend is more important. I don't agree with this statement. A good performance Backend is essentially no discussion but for the user it's not important if the calculation you are doing is solved in a ultra complex way or not
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    @PaladinRevenant I agree with you. A backend is very important. But it's not more important than the ui.
    I could do a shitty backend and the user would like the app based on the ui and ux as long as the backend is performant.
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    @AlmondSauce well your point is good, but I don't think people will use a app looking like crap in the first place. So does it really matter if you're backend can break at some point if you don't have enough users?
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    @LynxMagnus True. But this doesn't make backend more important then ui and Frontend stuff
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    And just to clear things up. I'm not a fronted dev. Just didn't agree with the statement. It's basically like saying a car can look like shit people will buy it because the motor is handcrafted
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    Unstable Backend could throw any shiny front end into the bin making it look buggy, this affecting the over all UX. I have seen this in real life.
    That being said backend has effect on the UX, but I won’t put it as more important than the user facing front end /UI. If the UI is not playing an important role in the UX then why bother having one? Just make a very good backend and there you have it.
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    @Nino9612 yeah right, backend it's like a "necessary" condition. not sufficient...
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