PostieDay 70 · 8 November 2026
Chapter 2 · 1 day to the chapter deadline
- Redesign the Admin Settings - Unifying Design
The other day exposed a bug in the creation and provisioning of shared inboxes. While sorting this bug it really annoyed me how the admin settings page was overly complicated but equally too simple. Does that make sense. I guess what I am complaining about is that the balance of information / usefulness was off by quite a lot.
Settings that are pointless or shown first before more important and more widely-used settings. Information that "looks right" and "important"/"essential" but doesn't actually mean anything... I just got so sick of pointless information taking up space I went through each page on the admin side and reworked the design to be more consistent between the pages removing fluff and slop (especially unnecessary headings and pointless focuses).
I think it's important to focus on features, getting the building blocks and building from that. You very rarely will get things done right on the first go round. I think it's important to be your own worst critic and say "is this needed?" or "what is the point of this" and really think yeah... part of this is why I have just focused on using Postie recently. If I can't use it or find myself frustrated by things then they really need to be looked at more critically.
Project pass, critic pass, refinement pass. While it's important to refine there's a balance that's needed. Remember "Perfect" is the enemy of the "Good"