Whitespace killed an enterprise app
One point:<p>&gt;Are there things my users really don’t need to see right now? If you don’t know, ask!<p>ASK! ASK! ASK!<p>For the love of god please ask your users.  I worked for a company with a big clunky enterprise app.   It got redesigned numerous times and rolled out with big fanfare.<p>Nobody who used for any significant amount of time was involved in any of the redesigns.   It was horrible every time with numerous changes just to get it not to be a huge pain point.... and then a new overhaul would come again.<p>I changed jobs to web development recently and really the first questions are to define the problems we&#x27;re solving, and find out from folks using it day to day what their pain points are and how they work.   I&#x27;ll make some mvp type stuff for say a given function and then show them and get more feedback, the important thing is to get it from the end user, not their boss, not their VP, but the end user (boss and VP have to be involved too of course, just in other ways, distract them with fun control panels and such....).<p>I ended up working for a very small company, handful of people, me and one senior programmer, the product doesn&#x27;t dominate the market but time and again customers just love that we call, ask, and do stuff and don&#x27;t dictate how they work (within reason).<p>You can still make things clean, but when removing things you have to ask, communicate, you&#x27;d be surprised how much you can change if it is part of a conversation, and how little you can change if you just force it on them.