Building a Grant Management platform for Moroccan nonprofits revealed that elegant solutions can create messy problems.
Optimizing for interface elegance over architectural coherence led to the creation of The Interface Lie.
The system was unknowingly causing duplication issues due to the UI design, leading to conflicts between the interface and system logic.
Balancing user experience with system integrity requires aligning UI with the actual system logic and being cautious of 'elegant' solutions that may compromise the architecture.