Timeline for How do you best deal with the boss that has no design experience?
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| May 17 at 23:15 | answer | added | Relaxed | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 15 at 13:53 | answer | added | Xavier J | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 13 at 18:41 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 11 at 6:42 | comment | added | Zdeněk Jelínek | @DJClayworth Duck is a (design) feature that is obviously wrong, added to a product so that it can be removed by higher-ups to satiste their need to be "useful" without causing actual product damage. See softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122009/… | |
| May 10 at 21:34 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Please enlighten us as to what "get rid of the duck" means. Google directs me to wildlife removal sites. | |
| May 10 at 17:21 | answer | added | Sherry | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 10 at 15:17 | answer | added | Yourn | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10 at 15:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 10 at 14:14 | comment | added | Wojtek322 | @DavidR Good idea, the previous job of the CEO was also in sales. | |
| May 10 at 14:11 | comment | added | Wojtek322 | @mattfreake We miss solid data to show him. We (SaaS company) just know we lost a few smaller prospective customers that have not yet. The work is fine | |
| May 10 at 14:11 | comment | added | David R | @Wojtek322 The best approach is to have the sales team make the business case to the CEO. In many companies, the CEO listens to the sales team far more than to the developers. | |
| May 10 at 13:54 | answer | added | keshlam | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10 at 13:53 | comment | added | matt freake | @Wojtek322 is that how you phrase the work you want to do? Do Sales make representations to him about this too? | |
| May 10 at 13:46 | comment | added | Wojtek322 | @mattfreake problems? Not really. But sales persons has reported that the users trust the app / website less since it looks outdated and looks like it has not been updated in years. We have lost some sales due to this. The only other problem is that the outdated elements are very big (used to fill the page) and are hard to work around. But this is doable with good designs. If we don't make the needed changes, the user experience will decrease. | |
| May 10 at 13:37 | comment | added | Peter M | I agree with @jayben, but I'd describe it slightly differently. The CEO doesn't care about design, they care about money. You need to present your ideas in terms that the CEO understands. IE Explain how your changes (or lack of changes) affect the bottom line. | |
| May 10 at 13:30 | comment | added | jayben | You clearly don't like the the constraints you are being given by the CEO, but what are the actual consequences of those constraints? Are your customers complaining? Is the profitability of the company reduced? Are you losing new business opportunities? If so, then you must make a case for change based on the revenue that is being lost. If not, then why do you need change? Is it just to keep up with the latest fashion? | |
| May 10 at 13:27 | comment | added | matt freake | Do the dated design elements cause concrete problems? | |
| May 10 at 13:10 | comment | added | Philip Kendall | Who, if anybody, sits between you and the CEO, and what are their views on all this? | |
| May 10 at 13:01 | history | asked | Wojtek322 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |