Over-reliance on pre-existing UI templates undermines innovation, misaligns interfaces with actual user journeys, and creates disjointed experiences. Templates tend to prioritize development speed over contextual relevance, often leaving real customer needs unaddressed. Some startups achieve short-term gains using templates, but sustainable success requires reinvesting profits to customize and evolve templates for better customer experience. Continuous daily improvements can transform an initial template into a wholly original design tailored to unique customers. Templates can aid familiarity and speed for first-time users, but indiscriminate use leads to generic products that fail to attract attention and miss strategic differentiation.
The over-reliance on pre-existing UI templates or design systems undermines innovation, misaligns with actual user journeys, or creates disjointed experiences. The UX gets diluted to UI cloning. Plus, templates optimize for speed, not always for context. And often, real customer needs fall outside the confines of a template. That being said, I have seen start-ups use templates and achieve success for a couple of months,
I have seen a lot of promising projects rise and fall, and what kept those I dealt with myself ahead is the constant work on improving customer experience, meaning if any template was used at first, it was altered significantly each day to a point where you could no longer even trace the initial template used as we had created something completely new in the end.
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