I’ll just contrast this with the default dashboard experience at my employer’s in-house bug tracker. That dashboard allows the user to customize the view in a grid, such as 1x2 or 2x3 or 3x3. Then within each item of a grid you can define a search query whose results will be displayed there. For each result, you can customize which items to show, e.g. subject, need attention, assignee, priority, etc. The UI feels dated in a late 2000s style, but it permits staggering amount of customization. When different employees open their dashboard it feels like different websites.
Software from before the current era, where we thought giving the users choice was a good thing. Now everyone gets a bland default, and people no longer invest in, or particularly care about, their tools, since some PM that has no idea about your use case will just change it in the next update anyway.
I don't mean to be cynical, but the trend is very real, in my experience.
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rpdillon · · focus · HN ↗
I don't mean to be cynical, but the trend is very real, in my experience.
stasomatic · · focus · HN ↗