There’s really no excuse. Not one good reason why any app used for any purpose should be ugly or foolishly complex.

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Think about it: if you encounter a desktop, mobile or online app that doesn’t seem to express its usage to you when you first take a look at it, how long are you going to stick around to learn it?

If you do stick around you’ve either got to be paid a ton of dough or have some other big motivation to get to grips with what it can do.

But there’s no excuse for software complacency, even in the enterprise.

If you use foolishly complex or buggy applications at work then you will not enjoy your work as much as you should. Perhaps that’s a little more acceptable if you only need to drop into the software sometimes, but it’s utterly soul-destroying if working in an awful app is your full time job. Your job satisfaction hits rock bottom and you find another job as soon as you are able.

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