[rjempson]

I don't really get your point. Its obvious that game developers would produce better interfaces / experiences, because that is what they are selling.

Enterprises are selling a product or service, and the customer paying the bills doesn't see the internal software that facilitates some part of the process of delivering that product or service. You could dream up a few examples where the end customer might be impacted by a poor UI used by internal staff but it would be an edge case.

If every enterprise software project attempted to produce game quality interfaces and experiences to the user, the costs would explode.

The only benefits of producing better interfaces / experiences / workflows for an enterprise are user moral and user efficiency. The latter is quite often addressed in my experience, as it affects the bottom line.

[ucee054]

You were shooting down the article by disparaging web and app developers, claiming that entreprise apps were ooh so haaaaard, implying that they required lots of expertise to build. Bullshit. In actual fact, entreprise software can be little more than a trivial skin over a database, with a sprinkle of domain logic.

The games example was just to show something that is really hard. I don't need the UI to be game quality; I'll settle for just the same quality as Excel.

And by the way, there is some unusable entreprise software out there. You seem unconcerned with the unhappiness its piss-poor UI causes for users so long as it's "efficient".

Take a look at Lotus Notes and tell me just how "efficient" it is.

[rjempson]

I think this comment is even more naive than the game UI comment. Excel has one of most complex UIs in existence. I seem to recall reading once there are many 100s of developers on that team.

[devdas]

For what problem domain? There are very few players in the corporate knowledge management ecosystem, none of which is particularly easy to use, but all of which are pretty powerful at that complex task.