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Which of the books say that a CEO shouldn't be meddling in User Interface Design and should worry about running the business instead?

• swombat 18y ago
  None that I'd want to read. In the earliest stage, if the CEO's not either technical or the product lead, he's a waste of space. There's nothing to run before you have a business. The early stage CEO should be a product designer (or programmer), and then eventually move to the side to bring in someone who really enjoys "running the business" as a CEO.
  • bjclark 18y ago
    Then he's not the CEO. He's the Founder and Product Lead, which still doesn't mean he should be designing user interfaces. Now, if the post said "What should a budding user interface designer read?" then the other answers are all great. But that's not what the post is. Thinking that a "CEO" needs to be the user interface designer is pretty obvious start down a VERY VERY bad path, IMO.
    • swombat 18y ago
      The founder and product lead is the CEO until the company can afford to get someone else to be the CEO. You're just splitting hairs... I believe that it is actually quite important for the product lead to have a strong sense of design - otherwise, where is he leading the product?
      • wheels 18y ago
        That might be true in YC-ish startups, but seems to be the opposite of what I've observed in the rest of the startup world. The CEO writes figures out what the market is and how to reach it; where the buttons are is not his concern.
        • swombat 18y ago
          I guess we have differing experiences then :-) My current startup's CEO is also our founder + product lead.