Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They’re just doing what they’re paid to do.
What they’re paid to do is increase ad exposure to drive YT premium subscriptions.
General public UX is a distant tertiary goal, in terms of what’s actually on the Jira board (or whatever they use).
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How the hell does getting redirected to this page drive any kind of exposure?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You need to understand that most software engineers are treated like code monkeys these days, and very often get overruled by product people going “idgaf just do the thing I said in the ticket”.
Source: am software engineer, and have been for about a decade and a half
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I worked at Lowe’s and our method of searching for products was the same as a customer’s: the website.
But the website’s search is designed to always return something.
This means if you search for something we don’t have, it would just show you some random shit.
For some reason this infuriated me. I was always apologizing to customers for our terrible UX.