Post #2597322
2025-11-06 16:36 UTC
Just to add one last note to this:
One of the major disconnects I've seen in my career between engineering and UX/UI design is rooted in this misconception.
The Engineers asks: we made a new feature, it does these new things, can I have a button for this new thing?
The design team hears: We want an applied anthropology research exercise. If our product has an international audience, it is fifty or two hundred research exercises.
What the Engineer thought they asked for: a little picture.
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@mhoye@mastodon.social 2025-11-06 16:40
You can see how both sides of this conversation find the other side frustrating to deal with. Engineers believe they've solved a major problem, and now "just" need a tiny label to make that solution discoverable. Interface designers believe that "just" having some new ideas is the easy part, but making new ideas legible and discoverable is a major problem. Both are correct. But one of those domains is... let's say far less prone to the practice of humility than the other.
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@krans@mastodon.me.uk 2025-11-06 19:27
@mhoye@mastodon.social We solved this problem in our product organisation by not having a design team.