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> But for this you need dedicated UX people Tesler was a computer scientist. He worked on AI and Smalltalk at Xerox, and was a manager at Apple at this time.
by ricardobeat 5y ago
> But for this you need dedicated UX people
Tesler was a computer scientist. He worked on AI and Smalltalk at Xerox, and was a manager at Apple at this time.
What we need to do instead, is bring down the wall between design and development that was built up in the past decade, encourage developers in the UI field to have multi-disciplinary skills, and stop assuming every minute not spent coding or in meetings is wasted.
- Vinnl 5y agoAs a UI engineer, I wish it was more common for UI engineers to learn about accessibility and how to contribute to doing UX research, rather than trying to pick up some back-end and calling that "full-stack". There's much more useful cross-pollination to be gained when branching out that way.
- andi999 5y agoBut this might break the beautiful visual design.
- ricardobeat 5y agoThat would be the equivalent of a car designer complaint that engineering ruined it. You cannot produce quality work without that collaboration in either direction.
- scns 5y agoForm over function? Or beautiful but useless (snark intended) The citrus press by Philippe Starck comes to mind. Many bars own it and display it but don't use it because it sucks. The last sentence came from a bartender who has it on the shelf.
- andi999 5y agoIf you look at GUI/web at least since a decade it is form over function.