Quote Originally Posted by fafalone View Post
Just a counter example where it was so crazy as to be remembered many years later... I was looking for a PE info tool... NT headers, export directory, etc. The fancier the UI was, the worse the tool was... fancy ui gimmicks made things hard to use, important stuff difficult to find or missing, bugs and errors... the best tool by far is TotalPE2 with deadass simple normal TreeView and tab controls. An 'ugly' UI, with no frills.

Then look at archive tools. 7zip is king, the ui is like win3.1.

So often it's the opposite; plenty of developers who make great tools don't have these fancy UIs because they're focused on usefulness and stability.
Utility applications are a usual exception, I'd say. Enterprise-level software in my opinion can live or die by their UIs.