Post Do Anything You Want To Do

What was once the domain of the genuine tech wizard is now commonplace.

On the one hand that’s amazing. On the other, it brings with it the temptation to stuff your app full of all sorts of functionality that won’t necessarily add value.

Just because you can do it, doesn’t always mean you should.

From the app developer’s perspective, it’s also raised expectations – both with the client looking to build the next ground-breaking solution and the user who, to whom these bells and whistles have become standard in some of the apps they use on a daily basis.

For the enlightened app developer, the saving on ‘technical’ time should be invested into a better understanding of the improvements in both process and user experience.

In turn, this should lead to a more judicious selection from the ever-expanding box of tricks that’s available.

It’s also worth pointing out that some knowledge and understanding of how things were done ‘back in the day’ can be incredibly useful when what should be a straightforward integration (there’s an API for that!) gets derailed and requires a bit of under-the-bonnet know-how to resolve.

The key for any successful app is the improvement it makes to the lives of its users – and that it definitely doesn’t tie them up in knots.

When did you last have the patience to use an app with a lengthy instruction manual?.