What I learned, and what we learned as a team, is that sometimes, beautiful design is not what a client wants. When developing for function, all of the UI/UX practises from modern and newer AI applications cannot be applied to a product that is designed to be functional at it's heart. So the key takeaway here is that it's okay to adopt new design principles if it makes for a more superior product.
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