The Golden Rule: Keep It Simple
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Yet another thing I’ve seen at HSBC is a rule that Apple swears by - to keep things as simple as possible, hold true.
When I was developing a system, I tried to add some features to it so that the user can better maintain the system. The big mistake was: it required quite a lot of changes/coding on our end, which ultimately backfired when I made some errors in the coding.
Worse of all, as the user interface wasn’t one that was well thought out, or ideally “fool-proof”, the user didn’t really understand how to use it, and entered erroneous data.
This could all have been avoided if I stuck to a really simple system design. Yes, maintenance of the system from the user’s end would have been tedious, but at least it wasn’t rocket science.
Sometimes, it isn’t about the wow-factor. It’s about being simple.
