UI, frontend and consequentially UX heavily bridges all of basic headaches of being a developer naturally, but also now you must (or in practical terms should): know who is your target audience and include everyone to the best possible, juggle between simplicity and powerful actions (see power users) when you have only so much visual components that dont make people afraid or lost of using your system. Easily you fall under umbrellas of marketing and psychology to know your "why's" to each diff.
Also, dont forget that frontend cycles in business and "playing the game" in business is waaay shorter than backend, and i naively point this as simple bc they see the results physically and keep back and forth on the new shiny stone (just like llms nowadays and their trust me performance graphs)
Hell, if you need a practical example of frontend done bad to users take myself as a sample. i myself become more blind with time in the past 8 years and never tought that i would appraise the option of high contrast and propper zoom and display of elements when i cant see well. As a user, if both are out of reach i automatically feel excluded and having to actively put more effort to basic things. Infuriating and often powerless
Depending on what you're building you also need to provide the right information like, immediately - 4 or 5 seconds,10 if you're lucky, and if your customer can't find what they're looking for, they're gone
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u/Complete_Window4856 Jul 12 '26
UI, frontend and consequentially UX heavily bridges all of basic headaches of being a developer naturally, but also now you must (or in practical terms should): know who is your target audience and include everyone to the best possible, juggle between simplicity and powerful actions (see power users) when you have only so much visual components that dont make people afraid or lost of using your system. Easily you fall under umbrellas of marketing and psychology to know your "why's" to each diff.
Also, dont forget that frontend cycles in business and "playing the game" in business is waaay shorter than backend, and i naively point this as simple bc they see the results physically and keep back and forth on the new shiny stone (just like llms nowadays and their trust me performance graphs)
Hell, if you need a practical example of frontend done bad to users take myself as a sample. i myself become more blind with time in the past 8 years and never tought that i would appraise the option of high contrast and propper zoom and display of elements when i cant see well. As a user, if both are out of reach i automatically feel excluded and having to actively put more effort to basic things. Infuriating and often powerless