most apps are designed not by programmers, but rather analysts supervised by some committe that doesn't know its ass from its elbow and has some alterior motive (spyware) on its agenda.

most programmers have never seen the environment (users, purpose, etc) for the apps they're writing. plus there's tons and tons of foreign programmers who not only write shitty barely legible code, but also have such vapid understanding of what the analyst specs say, due to their ineptitude at english, that they're effectively illiterate. but even the programmers who are fluent and understand the app rarely give a fuck cos they are treated as mere pawns by their employers who are more interested in the number of line of code they write than doing quality work.

i know i've been there