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- The author emphasizes that true learning in UI engineering comes from understanding problems, experimenting with solutions, and applying strategies, rather than focusing on specific technologies.
- Key UI challenges include consistency (keeping data in sync), responsiveness (handling feedback delays), latency (managing async actions), navigation (maintaining context), staleness (cache management), entropy (state complexity), priority (resource allocation), accessibility (inclusive design), internationalization (global support), delivery (code loading tradeoffs), resilience (fault isolation), and abstraction (code reusability).
- The author recommends building tiny apps without libraries to explore these problems and understand tradeoffs, encouraging readers to replicate behaviors from existing apps.