Ignoring Performance Metrics to Focus on User Experience
Picture this: your application loads in 50 milliseconds, has zero memory leaks, and your CPU usage graph looks like a perfectly flat line. Your engineering team is high-fiving in the hallway, the stakeholders are nodding approvingly at the dashboard, and then… users hate it. They’re abandoning your app faster than people leaving a meeting that could’ve been an email. Welcome to the great paradox of modern software development, where we’ve become so obsessed with measuring the machine that we’ve forgotten about the human sitting behind the screen, probably cursing at our “perfectly optimized” creation....
