Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by ryandrake on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:30AM (#36694244)

I wouldn’t throw out the baby with the bath water. There are good and bad “UX folks.” Just like there are good and bad developers. You just need to keep the bad ones away from your project.

When you’re looking for a “UX expert” and they are showing you their portfolio, ask them to show how their apps look on a phone in landscape orientation or over a slow dial-up connection, or how their designs work with a screen reader, or for a colorblind user. If they say “oh, that’s a problem for the Accessibility team,” RUN away from that candidate!

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by pantulis on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#36695588)

> When you’re looking for a “UX expert” and they are showing you their portfolio, ask them ...

Also, what was the methodology used to decide the particular UX solution to the problem?

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:05PM (#36699022)

I think a better way to put it is that generally, UX experts know what they're doing. But UX experts aren't the ones that actually design the UI, that's for a UI designer, and those folks are wholly unqualified and have zero business actually making UIs because they don't know a god damn thing about good UX.

A UI designer is tasked with making a UI beautiful, a concept that is highly subjective. A UX designer is tasked with making the UI functional, which is far less subjective.

Guess which person the management takes more input from?

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