Building an Enterprise Finance UI Like a Real Product

I was trying to make Intacct feel like a serious finance workspace instead of a decorative dashboard.

• Dense UI is not automatically bad when users need comparison, repetition, and speed.
• Finance tools need filters, saved views, exports, audit logs, and drilldowns more than marketing-style polish.
• Role-based workspaces make the product feel smaller for each user without reducing platform scope.
• Tables become product surfaces, not just data displays.

• AP, AR, GL, Cash, Reporting, Admin, Notifications, and Audit should share table and filter primitives.
• Saved views need durable metadata, not local-only UI state.
• Exports should be permissioned and audited.
• Drilldowns should preserve context so users can return to filtered lists without losing state.

• How much configurability should be available before it overwhelms the UI?
• What is the right line between module-specific behavior and shared table infrastructure?
• How should audit log visibility vary by role?

• Keep moving hardcoded UI data into service-layer calls.
• Standardize saved view metadata.
• Add module-specific empty, loading, and error states.
• Tie exports and drilldowns into audit logs.