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When the entire project budget goes to the UI/UX team
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When the entire project budget goes to the UI/UX team

Description

A meme with the caption 'WHEN THE FRONT END IS TOP PRIORITY' overlaid on an image showcasing a beautifully designed product. The top half of the image displays a three-step diagram illustrating how a specially designed glass prism, when filled with water, refracts light to create a rainbow. The bottom half is a high-quality photograph of this prism in action, casting a vibrant rainbow onto a clean white surface. The overall aesthetic is minimalist and elegant. The meme humorously equates this visually stunning object with a software project where the front end is given all the attention. The beautiful, polished user interface (the rainbow) is the main focus, while the underlying backend logic (the simple prism and water) is just a means to that aesthetic end, implying that the backend might be simple, non-scalable, or an afterthought compared to the slick presentation layer

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Frontend UX UI Backend ProjectManagement DesignPatterns Architecture

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Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The backend is just a single endpoint: `/api/v1/getRainbow`. The entire response is a hardcoded SVG
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The backend is just a single endpoint: `/api/v1/getRainbow`. The entire response is a hardcoded SVG

  2. Anonymous

    Marketing: “Can the button literally emit a rainbow?” Engineering: “Sure - just route an event-sourced, water-cooled photon pipeline through a 45° CAP-violating prism; availability is negotiable, but the gradient isn’t.”

  3. Anonymous

    Just like that prism, a 'frontend-first' mandate transforms your clean monolithic backend into seven microservices, each a different color of the performance spectrum - and somehow they all need to handle authentication differently

  4. Anonymous

    This perfectly captures the frontend journey: you start with a simple 45-degree angle requirement from the backend team, then product adds 'just a splash of interactivity,' and suddenly you're shipping a full WebGL rainbow with 60fps animations, three CSS preprocessors, and a bundle size that would make Newton weep. The backend is still waiting for you to consume their REST endpoint, but hey, at least the loading spinner has a parallax effect now

  5. Anonymous

    Frontend priority: instant rainbow from poured hype. Backend: the glass sweating under prod load

  6. Anonymous

    PM: make it delightful; we applied Snell’s law - UI refracts perfectly while the call graph hits total internal reflection on our SLOs

  7. Anonymous

    Front end top priority? We architect like optics - bend the domain model at 45°, add two layers of indirection, and pray to Snell’s law for the gradient while the backend is stuck in total internal reflection

  8. @TERASKULL 5y

    so, basically, half of the glass is useless, but pretty. We lost half of the capacity of the glass by adding a reflective prism.

  9. @TERASKULL 5y

    haha lol this is profunctor, there can't be anything deep here

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Looks like you in a wrong chat mate

      1. @TERASKULL 5y

        Lemme guess, the dev_meme club is 2 blocks down?

        1. dev_meme 5y

          You saw our avatar, right?

  10. @Juliaz852 5y

    Oh, so that's a glass, not a rainbow making device...

  11. @TERASKULL 5y

    Here I go explaining the joke. Most of the time profunctor has the same memes as here, because most of the time you both take them from r/programmerhumor, right?

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Except cases when they post ru memes

  12. @TERASKULL 5y

    That's kinda gay tbh, I hope you guys won't go the same way

    1. dev_meme 5y

      wait, what

    2. dev_meme 5y

      Sorry for my Russian

      1. @TERASKULL 5y

        Just don't post russian memes like them, that's all.

        1. dev_meme 5y

          You remind me to check their memes to steal something

          1. @TERASKULL 5y

            Wait that's illegal

            1. @elpinguinofrio 5y

              😂 I would imagine court case of stealing jokes which were stolen somewhere from reddit like "Pirate of Silicon Valley" Jobes vs Gates dialog)

  13. @NiKryukov 5y

    Portable Gayinator

    1. Deleted Account 5y

      Lol

  14. @gammapopolam 5y

    haha english go typin

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