Low-code Application Oversights and How to Resolve Them

Many low-code solutions prioritize user interface (UI)-first app building. Ironically, by beginning with the UI, businesses end up designing unsatisfactory user experiences. Design systems must define how things work and thus should be fundamentally woven into the modelling of the application development platform.

FREMONT, CA: Low-code is a powerful technology that allows development teams to build applications without complicated coding. This includes the user experience (UX), which often defines project success or failure. Eventually, low-code allows organizations to generate more satisfactory business outcomes, enabling their teams to concentrate on more profound, intricate UX problems and the needs of their users. Many low-code solutions prioritize user interface (UI)-first app building. Often the app-building procedure commences with the dragging of UI elements onto a blank canvas and then using data or actions to them, embedding necessary business logic into the layer. When application building commences this way, the capability of low code turns against the application. Ironically, by beginning with the UI, businesses end up designing unsatisfactory user experiences.

Business processes, logic, and data are the core of any application. Defining what users should be able to achieve and why is critical here. The processes, logic, data and core UX should drive the UI, not the other way around. So, when a development team utilises low-code approaches that begin with UI, they are essentially forcing the business processes to follow UI and they may be left with a broken application that won’t contribute to user goals.

Anyone in the enterprise software area understands that it’s typical for new projects to be entrenched for months, as individuals tend to gravitate toward less business-critical matters. Unfortunately, most low-code systems are fueling this behaviour. Rather than looking at the big picture, low-code developers start by concentrating on smaller, UI-based problems. This way they are tempted to neglect vital decisions that have a much more significant influence on how users interact with an application. Design systems must define how things work and thus should be fundamentally woven into the modelling of the application development platform.

Low-code application-building tools provide both businesspeople and developers the possibility to mould a business application. But while business architects must be directly involved in the design and build, businesses should prefer models in which business logic flows into experience layers, rather than attempting to build or modify the UI.