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What you describe is true in any area, including software developers. You could just start learning about UX. It’ll make you a better engineer!
by azhenley 8y ago
What you describe is true in any area, including software developers.
You could just start learning about UX. It’ll make you a better engineer!
- Waterluvian 8y agoI think you're partly right that it is true in any area. But I don't think it's equally true in every area, and I think that UX lends itself a bit more to subjective artsyness than software development. But I generally agree with your sentiment; you can absolutely find "just trust me" in software development. You can also probably smell it out better by learning about it more.
- azhenley 8y agoIf you do want to stay away from the “artsy” side, search for “usability engineering” and “interaction design”. You’ll find a lot more about empirically driven methods to evaluate your UI, mostly from a productivity perspective. I personally find it fascinating!
- madeofpalk 8y ago> more to subjective artsyness than software development. You would think so, but the amount of 'developer superstition' and and 'gut feeling' I've faced in development is quite high.