John and Cory were on this meeting. John was reporting and going over the payroll project and how deep it gets. John has been working with Chuck and Dustin on some code templates and style guides. There is a mixing between frontend designers and backend developers. That is great and I encouraged that. Cory and John were commenting on different things and going back and forth a bit. Good dialog.

Our clients really like the ability to change whatever they want, inside the interface. This could be colors, look and feel, logos, watermarks, navigation, menus, verbage, etc. It gets pretty deep. Some people don't like dealing with change. We talked about the old icon menus (hidden menus under the more options buttons) and the new look and feel for the more options links and buttons. Pros and cons to making the changes. The old way was more in your face with buttons, lots of white space, mini screenshots for icons vs a more subtle way to get to the menus with simple graphic icons and a more sleek and stylized feel.

We talked about creating more work for other people by making changes. Sometimes we just look at what we want to do vs thinking about those who help and support our clients. If we just change something, it has cascading effects to clients, staff, and others who help provide support and compliance. It trickles down pretty fast.

We talked about other client expectations and helping our users move into more modern ways of seeing, filtering, and exporting their data to CSV and Excel files.