Usability vs Functionality Over Usability
Developers should learn usability principles to create software that is not only functional but also user-friendly, reducing support costs and increasing customer retention meets developers should apply this concept when building minimum viable products (mvps), prototypes, or backend systems where functionality is essential for validation or integration, and user interaction is minimal. Here's our take.
Usability
Developers should learn usability principles to create software that is not only functional but also user-friendly, reducing support costs and increasing customer retention
Usability
Nice PickDevelopers should learn usability principles to create software that is not only functional but also user-friendly, reducing support costs and increasing customer retention
Pros
- +It is critical in web and mobile app development, enterprise software, and any product where user experience influences business outcomes
- +Related to: user-experience-design, user-interface-design
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Functionality Over Usability
Developers should apply this concept when building minimum viable products (MVPs), prototypes, or backend systems where functionality is essential for validation or integration, and user interaction is minimal
Pros
- +It's useful in agile development cycles to quickly test core ideas, but should be balanced with usability considerations as the product matures to avoid poor user adoption
- +Related to: minimum-viable-product, agile-development
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Usability if: You want it is critical in web and mobile app development, enterprise software, and any product where user experience influences business outcomes and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Functionality Over Usability if: You prioritize it's useful in agile development cycles to quickly test core ideas, but should be balanced with usability considerations as the product matures to avoid poor user adoption over what Usability offers.
Developers should learn usability principles to create software that is not only functional but also user-friendly, reducing support costs and increasing customer retention
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