[curtisblaine]

If you don't do marketing / ads in your UI it's unexpectedly easy to make it easy to use.

If, instead, you force the user to do things he doesn't want to do in order to get access to the things he wants to do, it's inevitable that the UI becomes frustrating, no matter how much care you put into it.

[sublinear]

Yeah that's not the kind of marketing I'm talking about. I'm talking about their influence on all the features required and overall design details.

If your requirements are entirely minimum viable product functional and you don't mind your UI looking incredibly ugly, I agree it is easy.

[floydnoel]

i certainly prefer ugly UIs, that's why we are here instead of reddit after all.