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If your design team is driven by metrics not vision then why would you offer the option to remove it having a metric saying people don’t like it makes the decis
by whywhywhywhy 4y ago
If your design team is driven by metrics not vision then why would you offer the option to remove it having a metric saying people don’t like it makes the decision look bad, after all you’re being judged on how much you increase Bing hits.
Really good design can only exist where you’re building to the vision of someone with good and opinionated taste. Building to only metrics is why trash like sign up gates on Twitter/Pinterest etc exist.
- rightbyte 4y ago> good and opinionated taste I think that is an oxymoron. Opinionated is just an euphemism for dogmatic and hard to work with person. E.g. the Go formater that enforces no-tabs or whatever. I don't want the tool to force stuff on me, ever. Pushing a stupid button and refusing to make the users able to remove it is a typical opinionated design choice.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoOpinionated in the sense that you're trying to make the best tool possible and will spend time arguing back when people try and make it worse, like with suggesting the taskbar team focus should be improving Bing search hits metric. Un-opinionated people will just do what they're told and design trash.