Had a discussion with a fellow coworker about users experience.
This guy actually trying to convince me that the backend is more important for ux then the ui. And this guy is a senior with over 12 years experience. Damn this one is really stupid 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

What were his arguments

@alexbrooklyn well basicly:

- He has a lot of experience (classic argument)

- The user will sooner or later feel it if the backend is shitty (what the actual fuck?)

@Nino9612 That guy must be a big fan of strawman arguments

well...if the user has to wait 10 seconds for the backend to give an answer I guess the experience will not be very good...Or if data are plain wrong.

That's the only argument I could find in his favour.
But nah...

The backend is the foundation of the app. No matter how well designed the frontend is, it is impossible to have a good UX if the application doesn't work on a fundamental level.

However, beyond simply working as expected, there's really no other input that the backend has on UX.

User experience isn't just about what they see and interact with, it's about the whole end to end service they receive.

I sort of agree with him, to a point. In my experience at least, if the backend is complete crap, then sooner or later it's going to break / do something odd / take ages to fulfill a request, etc. which will result in crappy UX no matter how you design the front-end.

Not sure I'd go as far as saying that makes it *more* important however.

@deviloper im with you on that one but his statement was that backend is more important. I don't agree with this statement. A good performance Backend is essentially no discussion but for the user it's not important if the calculation you are doing is solved in a ultra complex way or not

@PaladinRevenant I agree with you. A backend is very important. But it's not more important than the ui.
I could do a shitty backend and the user would like the app based on the ui and ux as long as the backend is performant.

@AlmondSauce well your point is good, but I don't think people will use a app looking like crap in the first place. So does it really matter if you're backend can break at some point if you don't have enough users?

@LynxMagnus True. But this doesn't make backend more important then ui and Frontend stuff

And just to clear things up. I'm not a fronted dev. Just didn't agree with the statement. It's basically like saying a car can look like shit people will buy it because the motor is handcrafted

Unstable Backend could throw any shiny front end into the bin making it look buggy, this affecting the over all UX. I have seen this in real life.
That being said backend has effect on the UX, but I won’t put it as more important than the user facing front end /UI. If the UI is not playing an important role in the UX then why bother having one? Just make a very good backend and there you have it.

@Nino9612 yeah right, backend it's like a "necessary" condition. not sufficient...