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The sooner we realize that 'product managers' and 'UX designers' are now as bad as used car salesmen and NFT hucksters, the better. I'm sorry, I LOVE building
by 23B1 3y ago
The sooner we realize that 'product managers' and 'UX designers' are now as bad as used car salesmen and NFT hucksters, the better.
I'm sorry, I LOVE building products and I LOVE design... but these fields have become grift central. No disrespect to folks in these fields, but remember how you came into this field talking about usability, cooperation, beautiful typography, color theory?
Bring those back.
- zgluck 3y agoMicrosoft has always been horrible at building web-based products. Recently they are also horrible at building Windows-based products. And at building Windows. But VSCode is okay, for now!
- Zambyte 3y ago> No disrespect to folks in these fields Why not? You can absolutely call people out for using Nuremberg defense. Just because someone ordered you to intentionally mistreat people doesn't mean that you did not intentionally mistreat people.
- 23B1 3y agoHoney>Vinegar
- Zambyte 3y agoThe most productive approach IMO is a little of both. Build designs that are intended to help people do what they want (instead of what you might want), and be loud about it. Neither being nice nor mean will persuade people working at Microsoft to be different. Being better and letting them know might though.
- 23B1 3y agoOh I don't have a problem calling out Microsoft at all. But I'm not gonna internet-shame some poor UX designer who is trying to pay her bills in this clown world – just want to encourage her to push back when she can.