What is your experience with UI and UX designers?
FYI: Survey is heavily biased đ - this is my experience within my own specific team. Obviously itâs a great thing if survey turns out many people work with good designers!
I think I work with some of the worst UX and UI software designers. Theyâre slow, always ask questions that have nothing to do with the project (their go to is always âwho is our user?â when it already is established in the parent portfolio of projects), slow down technical meetings, and most are just plain dumb.
Most just shift around buttons and colors... and theyâre already defined in the design system. Oh, and without any user research or data to back up their claims. Itâs usually âoh this is part of design thinkingâ âour users would want thisâ (like the 3 people who use it).
Their work always come out looking like crap. When the design is made and anyone complains about lack of improvement from metrics, their response is completely non-sensical (âoh this is off by a pixelâ).
Some questions and statements I had to deal with...
1. What is a URL?
2. We need to redesign Google and Facebook SSO pages to match our visuals because we believe in branding.
3. Can we make everything load instantly?
4. What do you mean we should filter out user numbers for just sign-ins apart from users who actually interact with the product? Arenât they the same?
5. I just donât know why itâs so hard for you to change this page when itâs so easy for me to move the boxes around in Sketch.
Is this just exclusive to me or do others have similar experiences?
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They arenât suddenly better designers a month later just because they work somewhere else now.
Engineer - âthe button is easy, but if you want the button to actually do something, thatâs difficultâ.
Iâve only worked with good designers. One even taught himself the basics of front end development just to better understand the product. He knew CSS better than most of the SWE. The rest at least understood the difficulties in development and asked for input from SWE when designing new features.