I worked on a project where the business accepted that situation and said they did not care what the system did so long as it was different to the old one. I made the UI in the prototype green, so it was definitely different! The business complained and asked for it to be changed which was a huge laugh. Image may be NSFW.
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However, the application was a success so sometimes that approach works. I believe that's called agile development these days Image may be NSFW.
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