Hot damn is this the most concise description of how I feel.
I’ve always described it as “the design team justifying their own existence after the job is done.”
Let software get stable and boring.
I’ve always described it as “the design team justifying their own existence after the job is done.”
Let software get stable and boring.
I actually think that's really what is going on. Wish I had first hand evidence though.
I do know of a tangential phenomenon at a friend's work place. Her org has a dedicated build tools team. So every 6 months every project's build infrastructure needs to change to something entirely new, because the build tools team keeps having to justify its existence.
I don't know why a company would let this sort of thing happen. It's a massive waste of time for every team.
Some of the most annoying UX I've had is on Quora, Facebook, and the reddit redesign, which all spend a veritable fortune on it, while the best ones I've seen are something a non-specialist slapped together with bootstrap.