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Aug 25, 2018

The quality of your codebase is a UX issue. If everything is inconsistent, if it takes longer to deliver than your competitors, if every major change results in countless additional bugs, if performance only ever degrades over time—your users will notice.

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odbol

@odbol

Aug 26, 2018

Writing an API or architecture is basically UX design, where the users you are designing for are other developers. Not enough engineers realize this fact.

Mark Dalgleish

@markdalgleish

Aug 26, 2018

Equally, not enough designers realise that creating a design system is all about API design.

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And not enough designers realise that designing simple, easy to understand types is a UX problem too. It's about exposing affordances that can be easily kept up-to-date with documentation and integrated into tools. 🙂

11:15 AM · Aug 26, 2018Twitter Web Client

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You might say our defined roles have a bad separation of concerns.