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We need your help! We& #39;re considering promoting our designer - but looking for some feedback form the community.
If you think he deserves it -
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Some context : The thing is... we& #39;re a bit unsure .. as...
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If you think he deserves it -
Some context : The thing is... we& #39;re a bit unsure .. as...
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- We haven& #39;t seen him create any UX maps, CX, IA maps, or really any kind of maps https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗺" title="Weltkarte" aria-label="Emoji: Weltkarte">
- He& #39;s been with us for over a year, and we still don& #39;t have a design systemhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📐" title="Geodreieck" aria-label="Emoji: Geodreieck">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📏" title="Gerades Lineal" aria-label="Emoji: Gerades Lineal"> (that& #39;s a must, right?)
- He useshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💎" title="Edelstein" aria-label="Emoji: Edelstein"> Sketch (not Figma?!?! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann">). Oh, and his Sketch artboards are messy!!
- He& #39;s been with us for over a year, and we still don& #39;t have a design system
- He uses
- He skips wireframes and jumps straight to high fidelity - for him that means straight in to code (!!) - should a designer even https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨💻" title="Man technologist" aria-label="Emoji: Man technologist">?
- He is opinionated, and once told an engineer that their idea ishttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❗" title="Rotes Ausrufezeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Ausrufezeichen">bad https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❗" title="Rotes Ausrufezeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Ausrufezeichen">
- He is obsessed over tiny little details, like these (thread below) :
- He is opinionated, and once told an engineer that their idea is
- He is obsessed over tiny little details, like these (thread below) :
During his first week, he had this idea that page icons should update based on their content to give more context to the user :
It turned out that he& #39;s a big fan of drag & drop, (keeps saying it& #39;s TOUCHscreen for a reason..) and he demanded it to be implemented properly! So anything you drag should be dropped anywhere - even on a different page!
The "group/ungroup"project was quite challenging with him - he figured out we should use animation and depth in order to help users better understand what& #39;s happening - I mean isn& #39;t the name "group" kinda trivial?
He had this idea that when zooming in on images we should also animate the radius of the corners - and when you close an image - it should fly back to it& #39;s original position. Even if you scroll to another image. I mean even Twitter only does this for the first image!
He worked close to a month to make sure content animates with *exactly* the same dynamics as the keyboard. We also needed to implement all sorts of tricks to satisfy his desire of moving back to content to it& #39;s original position when the keyboard is dismissed.
We had to almost completely re-architect our code base to support this tiny little thing where if 2 paragraphs have the same decorations, they magically https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔮" title="Kristallkugel" aria-label="Emoji: Kristallkugel"> (his - favourite - words!) merge
Search was another challenge. His idea was that we shouldn& #39;t just show results which are on the screen - but also everything down the hierarchy! Madness https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf">.
Though iOS does have a default drag and drop interaction (which we already use for moving things around), but he insisted it& #39;s too slow for quick add - and we have to do another (custom) implementation as well!!
On top of the already large amount of gestures he had this idea to make multi-selection more "convenient" via a pan gesture on the edge... I& #39;m sure people could just easily select them one-by-one...? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😕" title="Verwirrtes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Verwirrtes Gesicht">
Apple just introduced a nice context menu with iOS14 - but he didn& #39;t like it. It doesn& #39;t support going back or visual hierarchy - so he did this... I mean, it& #39;s just a context menu, surely it won& #39;t improve any major metrics - why did he even spend time here?
Sometimes he does come up with nice ideas though - i.e. these hover based spelling suggestions I have to admit are pretty sweet.
And finally, he managed to find the right place for confetti (although we& #39;ve been saying we **need** confetti for over a year - and I personally think it& #39;s a little too subtle!)
So what do you think? Should we continue to encourage him, or is this just getting out of control? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht">
