Design thinking

Corporate companies are huge business that sells consumer products. Whilst computers can help to speed up the business for increased sales, due to lack of computer fundamental knowledge, these companies buy software products for the benefits and get tightly coupled with softwares, in other words, they become dependent. This becomes a case that, it becomes an essential expense for organisation.

With a stable, rigid structure, and fixed roles and responsibilities for individual designation it is very unlikely to convince the leaders because their brain has also become rigid. To convince, and individual has to spend time with them, learn their words, and resonate with their own words for change.

However, with constant movement of people, and never-ever changing process, this becomes a difficult task, but not impossible.

Lets use time, space, money to convince leaders.

Out in the real, practical world, time is money, space is the real estate involved and money a factor that decides the profitability of a company.

The resource that is needed to run a business is time, space.

World wide organisations rely on people's time and geographical space as resource to run the business. These people's time, and geographical space is chosen in low market rate regions, computational work is transferred to the business headquarters through communication medium such as internet.

The effort put by an individual who is hired as an resource is calculated as an expense to the business, to find the profit.

The challenges

• People's time is calculated , but not their intellectual time.
• The lower most hierarchial employees, non-stakeholders, are replaceable and does labourous tasks.
• Geographical real estate is a running cost, unpredictable, which is not good for business.
• Communication between the individuals take time because of exchange of words, accent, culture.

The technical challenge that costs business money due to bloatware softwares.

• Business buy products, integrate them and use it, over the years, it becomes a tightly coupled system which business cant live without it. These products are computer software programs, sold as pluggable systems. But the truth is , there is no innovation in the computer space, just good marketing and sales.
• Softwares that power the business are collaboration softwares, communication softwares, integration softwares etc. These come as hurdles while engineering the actual product the business needs. 
• The businesses make decision not to build any product in-house, because to business, a computer program is mistook as if it could work only for a specific line of business.

Lets narrow the problem down to a core part of the work. The software development team in these companies are broadly classified into below groups.

• The designers - They work closely with the businesses or the product management to bring the ideas into a visual format as quick as possible. They use a design tool or usually do the drawings on the board or paper, then translate it into the digital format using design tools. These are shared with the development team post approval on the designs from the product. The design tool are not capable of generating a workable product because the design tool manufacturers dont know designer's language. Hence, the design tool takes the number one place in our bloatware list.
• The developers - They know how to write computer platform specific instructions to translate the design ideas from the designers. The designers are usually in europe or close to businesses, where as the developers are far away in the org structure as well as depending on whether it is a maintenance project or development project, the developers may be in America, Europe, Australia or in India. These developers use programming language and programming language editors such as VSCODE. These tools takes the number two place in our bloatware list.
• The Testers - The quality assurance team, they take the designer's files and the product requirement as the single source of truth, validate them against the product developed by the developers. Why not they work together? is not our focus. What really happens is, testers using automated tests to validate the requirements against the product. Hence they are always with a happy smiley face. The automated testing tools are not bloatware, but it is an inspiration. Why not automate the code generation? thats how UI-EDITOR is born.
• Build and Release - This is absolutely extra layer to the bloatware we are talking about. Mostly relies on build and release tools used by the CI / CD, infra teams. This setup runs each and every time a code change is made. The code change is made each and every time, because the developers do not have an experienced person to lead them, either the experienced developers move to management and forget to lead thinking they can hire someone else to build an inefficient engineering systems. But not the creator of UI-EDITOR. The creator, observed, learned, saw e every excuse others gave in building right as an opportunity and a passion to chase.

Business can't be made understood the power of a computer because a typical mindset of any person running business, making profit using a computer has a disbelief that they need computer programmers to make businesses software.

A business does not need a computer programmer to build software that runs business. However, due to the rigid nature of corporation,  and outdated practices, businesses leaders are not aware much about the computational power and consider it as a research and development. A risk in terms of investment needed to build the system.

What if we build a right program or software for companies, for all the individuals who are running the business, so that they can perform business activities using the software? That's the catch. Business men are busy making deals, and delegating it to sub ordinates. Hence you cant sell to business men a software and ask them to operate in front of a computer.

Then what's the idea?

What if we build a software that builds softwares? its one time effort.

Though there are several domains of solving the problem of software development and maintenance for businesses, lets narrow it down to a crucial piece.

Like mentioned before, time and space are the real resource that is needed to power a business. But the most important resource is the light energy. Where it is available in a computer? the display systems.

This light energy helps the users to have user interfaces to communicate with the computer machine. A typical method of software development is to write instructions to computer using time and space moving commands as specified by a programming language standards. But the challenge with this is, it brings in a dependency of a single programming language, and hence a dependency on the programmer.

Instead of building software application using programming, lets visually build the software application and then generate a code targeting the specific platform this needs to run.

This technique is a niche area, but UI-EDITOR has solved it for user interfaces in web. With help of UI-EDITOR, now the customers or the programmers or the designers, can design and build user interfaces to build other tools, visually.

The code generation concept works flawlessly for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and the technique scales to any programming language of choice.

This offers a wide range of advantages over conventional methods. 

• The code is modified by a machine, which will not make mistakes. 
• The machine generated code is readable. 
• The designs remain as the single source of truth, so even when people change, the business logic remain the same, with new technology, by swapping the programming language, it just works.