Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering

Product & UI/UX Designer
Clarity over decoration

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Glad to share my case study on a feature I designed for WhatsApp. #StatusDraft

As a WhatsApp user, sometimes I wish I had a feature in WhatsApp like X that allows me to save my content in a draft.

This helps and gives me enough time to post and refine my content as I see fit.

[Mayor Of Calabar @Uno_009]

If you can’t go out for the protest, the least you can do is to repost 😢

Please let's repost and share massively😭

#BringBackOurChildren
#BringBackOurChildren
#BringBackOurChildren
#BringBackOurChildren

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Today's Gilb's Law taught me: don't ignore them either.

The goal isn't perfect measurement, but visibility.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Day 23/56 — Software Engineering Laws

Gilb's Law:

Anything important can be measured in some way better than not measuring it at all.

Yesterday's Goodhart's Law taught me:
don't worship metrics.

#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

But the moment people are rewarded for the metric itself, they'll start optimizing the score instead of the outcome.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Day 22/56 — Software Engineering Laws

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize: metrics are useful for guidance.
#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@thekenndubisi Recently: https://t.co/3vSV8fr4XN
@thekenndubisi

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@engineaust Do you have like a whatsapp group one can join in?

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@Prime_Analysis Interested

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@yosseedesign Check your DM

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize: building software is one challenge and finishing it well is another.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Day 21/56 — Software Engineering Laws

Ninety-Ninety Rule:

The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time.
The remaining 10% takes another 90%.

#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize:

too much time can sometimes create:
Overthinking,
Over-engineering,
and unnecessary complexity.

Constraints shape systems, too.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Day 20/56 — Software Engineering Laws

Parkinson’s Law:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@FaisalFeroz spot on

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

After studying 9 more software engineering laws focused on teams and organizations, one thing keeps becoming clearer to me:

Many software problems are actually people problems.
#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

@Jessseglee What are we building?
https://t.co/OXXyHxZi1P

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

https://t.co/NCLdW7tSMe

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Day 19/56 — Software Engineering Laws

Hofstadter’s Law:
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

#SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #BuildInPublic

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize:

Complexity doesn’t only affect systems, it also affects our ability to estimate them accurately.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

Still learning. Still connecting the dots.

[Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering @katadevdesign]

The deeper I go into these laws, the more I realize:
communication shapes architecture,
coordination shapes delivery,
leadership shapes systems,
and organizational structure shapes outcomes.

Every large software system is also a human system.