[TimTheTinker]

> That this post has 800 upvotes is just a reminder of the caliber of UI/UX experience the average HNer has

Or maybe it's our collective frustration with processes and expectations that make it very difficult to be a craftsman--and that make web app UI bad in general.

I remember my boss being frustrated with how long it was taking me to build a set of filtering dropdown components from scratch (one of the most difficult to get right). I stuck with it and put in some extra hours to really get all the small details right. Later that year, he asked me to tech-lead a newly forming team of UI engineers.

A year later, everyone called it great work and no one remembered how long it took.