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Why are developers unquestionable dictators and tyrants these days? You get vast seas of "NO!!" and the projects are like "well sorry, mr engineering school ov
by RobertKerans 6y ago
Why are developers unquestionable dictators and tyrants these days?
You get vast seas of "NO!!" and the projects are like "well sorry, mr engineering school over here used a UI framework at some point and liked that and also blah blah blah technical limitations blah, and wooh, abstractions that let you apply and reuse components in a programmatic manner or whatever blah blah blah. This is what we're doing!"
I mean what on earth, stop this insane nonsense already. Listen to the users.
- kristopolous 6y agoEqually stupid. I call it abstractolish when someone is tasked with say writing some code to order pizza on the internet and they approach it acting like they're Bertrand Russell writing JavaScript. Everyone can get caught up in their own bullshit. Be stupid and make obvious things. It's an art, sure. Door handles, toilets, faucets, showers, hammers, physical world assets provide great analogies for what works and doesn't. Much love for the design of everyday things but I think Norman missed the boat by not making the connections more explicit between the Fred Brooks pure thought stuff and you know, the tea kettle on the cover of his book. Maybe it's just my projection
- RobertKerans 6y agoIt's not normally "being caught up in their own bullshit" though. Design + development + user research + user testing of software is expensive (in time, in thought, in arranging coordination, in cash). In this case, the thing in question is a product whose funding has been drastically -- why are you making the assumption a. this is a change driven by designers and b. isn't completely practical from a software design PoV (with the trade-off being that a few users don't like the change -- I don't for example, but it's no biggie)