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This happens when a company hires new product managers who don't give a hoot about what made the product originally great to begin with. I call it "Skypeificati
by dudeinjapan 4y ago
This happens when a company hires new product managers who don't give a hoot about what made the product originally great to begin with. I call it "Skypeification"
- wiseowise 4y agoWhat made product originally great? Features, not UI.
- DocTomoe 4y agoUnless in the cases where the UI was actually part of the featureset.
- dudeinjapan 4y agoProducts become great by being "mission-oriented": they help their users achieve a goal. Often the UI evolves organically based on user feedback and becomes "locally-optimized" for the user's workflow. When you get a PM/Designer who insists on following the design principles they learned on YouTube, they tend to throw out the UI along with all the implicit knowledge accumulated within it. This is related to Chesterton's Fence https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/