The more clunky the app, the less likely you will use it. It’s a simple fact. How do I know? Well, it comes from the clients I work with. Not only that, but it also comes from my personal experience.
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I don't think anyone likes complications and friction.
Everyone wants to get rid of it.
I don't think there's anyone on the planet that sits there and going, you know, I could do with some friction and some complication, my life being complicated.
Well, this is a tech channel, so I'm going to talk about the tech side of things.
And for me, I had some issues with my tech, and I wanted to make them easier.
So as you know, I've just moved over to another service. another host for my website, and that's enabled me to add some extra features on it.
The features weren't really the thing that drew me to it.
What drew me to it to move my website to the new host was more to do with the way my current workflow was.
So I eliminated three tools, three tools, count them, and moved over to just one tool.
Again, that's got nothing to do with the extra features that the website and that I've implemented is to do with how I was working my workflow, basically.
So having less tools, having less complications, having less friction within my workflow will enable me to be more productive.
And I think people miss that.
What people do is, well, it's working.
This is exactly what I did.
Well, it's working.
I know it's clunky.
I know it's kind of annoying.
I could save time, but it's working and I don't really want to touch it.
And that was me for a few years.
Mind you, the tool that I came from, which was Webflow at the beginning, I used it because it was easier than my previous workflow, right?
So we're always trying to make things better.
We're not going backwards.
If you're going backwards, then you're doing something completely wrong.
But moving over to Webflow from, what was I using before, WordPress, WordPress was clunky.
And now it's got to a stage where Webflow is getting clunky and complicated.
I have this thing.
If a tool or an app, and this is going to rub some people the wrong way, if an app or a service that I'm using is clunky and PC-like, works like a PC, I don't use it.
If it's simple, makes my life easier and looks Mac-like, I will probably use it.
And I say probably because the tool still has to do what I need it to do.
So I have this threshold of, does it look nice?
Is it going to help my workflow?
And if it's clunky, look for a new thing.
And that's what I did when I moved over.
So if you're running your business and time is of the essence, and it usually is, because you only get a certain amount of time on a project, a certain amount of time in the day, certain amount of time that you need to do stuff.
So time is always of the essence.
And time for me means more than anything else in the world, other than my dog, Woof!.
He's chilling out here.
So find new tools.
Don't just think, you know, this is working because that's what I did.
And I guess in a way, I wasted a lot of time.
But find the tools that will work for your workflow and make the work.
And you probably get rid of some of the tools that you're already using, which happened to me.
As I said, I've got rid of three tools and I replaced it with one with extra features.
Again, the extra features was something else.
Have a great day.
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