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It’s not necessarily mental disorder. In some companies, when management runs out of ideas what to do, they start changing UI and pull revenue fluctuations as c
by jesterson 3y ago
It’s not necessarily mental disorder. In some companies, when management runs out of ideas what to do, they start changing UI and pull revenue fluctuations as consequences of those “improvements”.
- javajosh 3y agoIt would be a real tragedy if they discovered you could write a webapp such that all such "pushing around the plate" activity could be done via CSS. But of course that is insufficient "drag" to dissipate managements excess energy, so this activity requires backend work as well. Note that this only applies to management at cash cow businesses - startups have plenty of real work to do. This sets up an interesting dimension in the tension between the needs of Enterprise ("make small changes labor intensive") and startups ("make large changes quickly"): too much developer productivity would eliminate 80% of a huge set of bullshit jobs.
- jesterson 3y agoThey know about it, but they need to generate some activity. Just changing CSS is way too simple and you can’t claim much credit for that
- sfink 3y agoYou can if you do it with an A/B test where you can argue about the percentage of treatment, the duration of the test (is the difference persistent?), and do precise time tracking to log how long the user takes to take an action. That'll bury the actual change in a mountain of configuration, documentation, rollout plans, etc.
- jesterson 3y agoThat'll require quite some knowledge and mental energy. Not many people are capable of that
- gedy 3y agoYou guys seem to be pinning this on developers, but 90% of this comes from ux designers and sometimes product. Devs are usually "just tell me what to do"
- jesterson 3y agoIt does indeed, but from my experience it comes far often from marketing and management.