• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Actually the front end stuff is more like “we need to make the ‘sign in’ button bigger. No one can click it because it’s tiny, and it’s in German.”

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I spent years as a mobile developer and the thing that always drove me the most nuts was being handed a software design with lots of tiny buttons that were nearly impossible to tap with a finger. I generally implemented the UI by increasing the size of the tappable regions (without increasing the apparent size of the buttons) making it actually usable, but one time the designer discovered that I was doing this and went apeshit and convinced the project manager to order me to undo all this and make the tappable regions the same size as the buttons. The grounds for this was that implementing the larger tappable regions would take too much extra time - despite the fact that this had already been done and it took additional time to undo it.

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        8 months ago

        So wait you actually had to undo it all? What kind of designer would make mobile buttons small?

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          I usually just do what they requested and when they come to complain I just tell them “well, you’re the one who requested this” and pull up receipts. My DM to myself on Slack is filled with screenshots and links to confirmations for bullshit requests that the product team made.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            My DM to myself on Slack is filled with screenshots and links to confirmations for bullshit requests that the product team made.

            How good does it feel when you pull out those screenshots to say, ‘no u’?

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          What kind of designer would make mobile buttons small?

          Have you ever used a mobile app? Every commercial mobile app I’ve ever used has tons of tiny fucking buttons.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Isn’t our main audience German? If you wanted non German stuff you shoulda asked for regional translations. Not only is that a change request, but you’re gonna be pushing the release window by months.