Comments on: Sometimes, easy is a bad thing http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/sometimes_easy_/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:33:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steven Devijver http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/sometimes_easy_/comment-page-1/#comment-871 Steven Devijver Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:09:13 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/sometimes_easy_/#comment-871 <p>Talking about "user experience", it would be nice if a redirect would be issued after submitting a post to this blog.</p> <p>Avoids the infamous brower repost popup box.</p> Talking about “user experience”, it would be nice if a redirect would be issued after submitting a post to this blog.

Avoids the infamous brower repost popup box.

]]> By: Steven Devijver http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/sometimes_easy_/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Steven Devijver Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:06:44 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/sometimes_easy_/#comment-870 <p>Yet another story where paying attention to one aspect is inappropriate.</p> <p>Keeping things simple, easy user experience, only write what you need. All these are typical short-term objectives that may obfuscate long-term issues.</p> <p>For many little applications this may be of no concern but these 'agile' techniques are used more and more on big applications with lots of complexity that arguably can't be handled efficiently with simple strategies.</p> <p>Agile techniques are very useful but I haven't encountered ways of working yet that take Eric Evans' "approach to design" cause for complexity into account.</p> Yet another story where paying attention to one aspect is inappropriate.

Keeping things simple, easy user experience, only write what you need. All these are typical short-term objectives that may obfuscate long-term issues.

For many little applications this may be of no concern but these ‘agile’ techniques are used more and more on big applications with lots of complexity that arguably can’t be handled efficiently with simple strategies.

Agile techniques are very useful but I haven’t encountered ways of working yet that take Eric Evans’ “approach to design” cause for complexity into account.

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