[csydas]

while i get what you’re saying i also know many senior devs who swim in dogma of their own creation, finding some trend they personally aspire to and enforcing it religiously. i think the relative experience of a dev is not a clue for me on if they are going to do research on what the end users actually need.

[chasing]

I was talking about designers, specifically. But I have found that senior people on any I’ll are generally more capable of making considered choices. Not all, of course. And engineers definitely will bias towards tools they understand and have had good past experiences with. Again, to be “senior” at something means being aware of these biases and making reasoned choices despite them.

[ivan_gammel]

I see in your comments some bias too. You assume that UX designer made wrong choices, hence this person was junior. In fact, many designers have specialization and the choices made were good from a perspective of a printed media designer (management error - wrong hire/assignment). Or the designer was not aware of specific use cases, that were not communicated by the product manager. It is very easy and straightforward to blame the designer, but the root causes are very often somewhere else. Too often it’s just failure to understand specialization and hiring wrong people for the job.