Comment

Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

While this is true, designers are constatnly beholden to management (much like programmers are), so while designers would love to create a nice looking usable application, they end up having to go with the mockups that management requested which are of course a worse experience for the end-user.

It’s really sad.

source

Sort:hotnew top

MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
i feel like a lot of useless bullshit wouldn’t be made if managers and execs didn’t feel the need to validate their useless existence.

source
TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
In FOSS world, this is only as true for the subset of developers (including both programmers and designers) that are contributing code as their job duties. Additionally that effect is only prominent in projects that are dominated by one organization. Both those things do happen, but there’s also numerous exceptions, too.

Some developers are paid to write unrelated proprietary code and the developer also contributes to open source on their free time. Some projects have so many corotate contributors that none of them can single-handedly direct the development.

source
- ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh, sorry, I wasn’t referencing the FOSS world with my comment.
  
  My code was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.
  
  source
  - TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I mean, then you’re describing bog-standard capitalistic exploitation, and it’s not exclusive to designers.
    
    source
    ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sure yeah, my comment originally mentioned designers and developers, but I was too tired to remember that in my follow-up comment.
    
    It’s hard to be extremely detailed and also remember every single detail of what I was mentioning as well.
    
    source
Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh I’m well aware, that’s why I threw in the part about needing to be utilized. Because even if the engineers are good with their finished product, some VP will eventually ask their director why the team’s output has dropped or why they have so many people for so little work.

I’m an engineer working on a new product right now. Fortunately we’re a small outfit with niche customers.

source