Yeah engineer, developer, and designer all give their input. Designer proposal is likely the most user friendly, but, changes come with real tangible engineering / development costs. Manager says “ok stick with what we have, it’s cheaper.”

I’m a software engineer and UX designer.

Being in both those roles can sometimes be incredibly frustrating. Like “yes, this is the best solution for users. It helps dev by being more future proof, using more common patterns with more readily available open source software. It will take considerable dev time so we should do it now rather than later. If we don’t do this now it will just lead to more technical debt and a worse experience”

CTO: “sounds expensive, let’s not do it”

A year later, CTO: “why is this so convoluted? Shouldn’t we have worked on these changes earlier?”

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As an engineer with a boss I really do not like and who makes moronic decisions ALL the time (that I then have to go along with), I agree