Re:Hi, I’m a UX Developer - You’re a what?
by waterflame on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:47PM
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UX ripped off skills from different majors and combined them together to form a new job: usability from designers, planning and organizing and wireframing from project managers, testing from QA and test groups, and prototyping from developers.
this leaves managers with traffic between sales/clients, designers, UX bullshitters and developers.
It leaves designers with making the wireframes look better.
It leaves developers with production work.
UX developer: "we should do this and this and this."
Developer: "yes master"
To me UX is a set of skills that designers and developers should learn and earn. That what makes a Designer and a Developer: SENIOR.
What is seniority then? Speed?
CEO: "Yes this is our senior designer. He can design a website in 5 minutes. He's senior because he knows all Photoshop shortcuts and is fast with the tools. By the way, his designs look nice and he follows everything the UX Designer tells him to."
this leaves managers with traffic between sales/clients, designers, UX bullshitters and developers. It leaves designers with making the wireframes look better. It leaves developers with production work.
UX developer: "we should do this and this and this." Developer: "yes master"
To me UX is a set of skills that designers and developers should learn and earn. That what makes a Designer and a Developer: SENIOR. What is seniority then? Speed? CEO: "Yes this is our senior designer. He can design a website in 5 minutes. He's senior because he knows all Photoshop shortcuts and is fast with the tools. By the way, his designs look nice and he follows everything the UX Designer tells him to."