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> Some people don’t care enough > > The more people you hire, the more likely you are to hire people who don’t care enough about good interface design. Good int
by manoDev 2mo ago
> Some people don’t care enough
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> The more people you hire, the more likely you are to hire people who don’t care enough about good interface design. Good interface design needs to be valued by everyone who can affect the work. That includes developers, designers, product managers, and often the CEO.
I know where you're going with this, but here's a twist:
A CEO who cares about interface _design_ is path to micromanaging and pain. A CEO should care about interface _designers_, who are (hopefully) the people trained on how do it well.
Even better: CEOs should care about developers with UI/UX skills, because too often CEOs adopt designers like a pet and keep them busy 24/7 asking for mockups.
- jonathanlydall 2mo agoMy assumption when reading that the CEO should care, was that they give those underneath them the time and resources needed to achieve quality because they value it, not that they are necessarily involved in the details.
- doginasuit 2mo agoTo care enough to recognize it is out of your depth.
- sscaryterry 2mo agoA CEO should know when the people working for them are bullshitting them, blowing smoke...
- pydry 2mo ago>A CEO who cares about interface _design_ is path to micromanaging and pain. That's how Apple blew up into a trillion dollar company.
- Arainach 2mo ago...while being a painful place to work at, so not really disproving the point. Plenty of other CEOs have thought the secret to Apple's success was micromanaging like Steve Jobs and been proved very wrong. The best CEOs hire people smarter than them (in their respective disciplines) rather than assuming they always know best.
- testfrequency 2mo agoThose CEOs are often not around though once the company has fully matured. Then it’s back to micro managing and endless unclear company priorities..
- chrisweekly 2mo agoAlso how countless other companies didn't.
- nitwit005 2mo agoPlenty of successful companies that didn't have a great UI, and plenty of failures that did.
- kristianc 2mo ago> too often CEOs adopt designers like a pet I've even seen a version where the designer is the CEO's daughter, which is the worst possible version of this pattern.
- esafak 2mo agoSomebody needs to be responsible for quality and say 'no' if not the CEO.