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> why would I suddenly need a change? Because your designers need a reason to still exist, and redesigning an entire application is what that reason becomes.
by krageon 5y ago
> why would I suddenly need a change?
Because your designers need a reason to still exist, and redesigning an entire application is what that reason becomes.
- darkwater 5y agoJust like fashion... I wonder why we don't all wear the same style as 100 years ago, no? /s
- krageon 5y agoYou're apparently sarcastic, but fashion really does look like nonsense to me. I'm not sure what point you're making.
- duckmysick 5y agoWhich parts are nonsense?
- xdennis 5y agoThe part where things are changed for no good reason.
- lucumo 5y agoThis reminded me of that famous scene from The Devil Wears Prada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2fgquYTCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2fgquYTCg
- krageon 5y agoI can understand that it is basically impossible to live separate from that sort of industry but that doesn't make it not nonsense. It's a very good scene (and a nice movie), but it doesn't change the fact that "fashion" is a moving target that exists for it's own sake. It's a signaling pathway that sprouted an enormous industry on it's back.
- darkwater 5y agoThat human beings, or a portion of them, like to change their external look often enough. Maybe not in every society on Earth, but surely in many of them.
- inawarminister 5y agoI would unironically wear Taisho-era male fashion everyday if I could. Perhaps when I have my own company....
- spiderfarmer 5y agoIt's more that it's just like programmers who feel technical debt forces them to overhaul entire projects.
- thrown12 5y agoThe difference is that software projects are always hot garbage that barely works. So long as end user functionality doesn't change this is at worst benign. UI changes on the other hand are always detrimental to users who have spent the time learning how to use the software.
- rchaud 5y agoIf this was true, why don't product managers just hand design tasks over to Fiverr or Upwork? Surely everyone would be happy if you only paid for design when you needed it.
- krageon 5y agoBecause contractor work is categorically worse than salaried work, outside of very high pay grades. Bear in mind my prejudice is entirely based on my professional experience. Perhaps a magical land exists where this is not the case, but it's not the one I live in.