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I’ve seen many apps where the engineers have unleashed their creativity across the entire code base. Creativity is overrated.
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iiii90854yFor a functional thing, that gets shit done, creativity is redundant for 95% of the system. The important thing is efficiency, not creativity.
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@iiii actually no.
This is true when you are working as consultant and you have X hours to deliver Y project.
If you want to build something people are actually like using and willing to pay for, the UI/UX, interactions and simplicity are WAY more important than functionality. -
iiii90854y@NoToJavaScript and how is creativity is accounted in simplicity and interactions? Those are all analytical parameters that require little to no creativity, but knowledge and data.
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