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This has been discussed around here - if you have permanent UX staff, what are they going to do to justify their existence and how do they get promotions? They
by ahartmetz 7y ago
This has been discussed around here - if you have permanent UX staff, what are they going to do to justify their existence and how do they get promotions? They have to change things.
- valiant55 7y agoThis is an interesting observation. I worked for Google for a number of years, and while the UX staff was light, our (relatively) small product did have dedicated staff. That being said, Google's org is pretty fluid, there should be plenty of new projects in need of UX that you don't have to mess with old projects.
- kkarakk 7y agoI wanna know who the UX people are on Youtube. I never understand what is the point of half the changes and have started to dislike the mobile app enough to actively avoid browsing for videos Doesn't help that the recommender algorithm seems to surface completely random 8 year old videos in the "recommended" feed now
- ahartmetz 7y agoOn Android, NewPipe is much better than the Youtube app.
- aasasd 7y agoHey, people now discover excellent videos through the eight-year-old recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obinHg70l8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obinHg70l8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vL1uAXn7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vL1uAXn7s
- tobr 7y agoI think you can switch “UX staff” for anyone who works with developing the product, rather than maintaining it as it is. What is a developer going to do if the product is already done?
- billforsternz 7y agoCreate a new product
- kkarakk 7y agoThe question becomes - why do you have so many extraneous staff that they start making changes for the sake of change? If it doesn't result in growth, it's time to prune those people.maybe switch to consultants instead.