A UI designer does a good job if the person who's paying them thinks they did a good job, not whether or not they actually followed best practices, unless that's how the work gets approved. A frontend developer does a good job if their tickets are done and their boss likes them, which may or may not include actual quality work that's accessible or usable. That's the secret I wish I'd known when I started working, could have avoided the extra personal cost of trying produce quality results despite there being no incentive structure for it.
Just like morality and law are not the same, the objective quality of a UI designer's work doesn't necessarily have anything in common with their employer's preferences.
You're right that only one of those is paid well, but that's not what GP was talking about.
So what if we will? That does not mean we will be users of the products we are designing the UI for at that point. Design for actual disabilities that you can reasonably expect your users to have, such as color blindness, not the full spectrum of the human condition.
That said, I do think products should be as simple and clear as possible for a given level of essential complexity.
brailsafe|2 years ago
alpaca128|2 years ago
You're right that only one of those is paid well, but that's not what GP was talking about.
esafak|2 years ago
That said, I do think products should be as simple and clear as possible for a given level of essential complexity.