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> users come away with a stronger impression of “solidness”

This really is what UI polish of any kind is all about. You feel like you can trust it more, it feels more robust and reliable. Animation and gestures are a part of this, but it’s only the last mile after everything already feels robust.

Before you make it more glitzy you have to make it less glitchy.

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> Before you make it more glitzy you have to make it less glitchy.

I am copying this so that I can use it later when the marketing comes in and suggests we devote more dev time to yet another landing page renewal when we are at capacity just handling Bug tickets

That I can agree with. Applying polish to glitchy software is like putting a high end leather interior and soundproofing in a car that only starts 85% of the time and occaisionally opens its rear hatch while on the road for no apparent reason.

Or, more simply: "lipstick on a pig".

> occaisionally opens its rear hatch while on the road for no apparent reason.

That is how "our army of well trained monkeys" can get in to fix the "oops. something went wrong" problem.

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