Who cares about user interfaces? (by alaric)

Developing user interfaces to software systems is incredibly rewarding.

If your software system has a user interface at all - and most do, even if it's just for service engineers - then interacting with a human is, presumably, part of its function. And since humans generally pay the bills or otherwise reward and motivate the development of software, I'd hazard a guess that whatever interaction your system has with the user might be the most important thing it does. So having a poor user interface might well mean that whatever else is wonderful about your software is meaningless, because nobody can use it.

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