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100% the "next feature" syndrome is super destructive and rarely ends in the product differentiation desired

That’s exactly what I love to do and where I can shine as developer with design background.

Yeah but wouldn't it be easier to keep making your product shittier and further behind until you decide to liqidate the company into your bank account, take the money, and run?

But how to find someone, who is good in CSS? Often Frontend Designers appear to be just good in Figma. But dont have a clue about more than CSS basics.

If anyone needs this, drop me a line! I'm definitely looking for a job! 😊

A focus on polish is the opposite of featuritus And featuritus is the current product differentiation pit everyone falls into. More crappy done features won't differentiate the way folks think it will

Does anybody still do usability testing any more?

100% agree, websites are starting to look same-y. So when one comes around that has a little something extra it makes a difference.

For truth. When I get extra time in a sprint to just polish the CSS, the experience goes ++

I once proposed the idea of a consulting agency of tech-head gun guys (more common than most people think) who go into game studios to explain how suppressors do and don't work, smack everyone who calls magazines "clips" and make sure the AK-47s aren't ejecting to the left.

ROI will be your company being the obvious user choice amongst others failing UX

Want to appeal to a very narrow but high buying power demographic? No matter how ridiculous it seems, build a CLI tool. Let me search for sneakers from my terminal.

I call this adding “jazz hands”. It’s not for the user, it’s for the suits.

I have been consistently told to reduce the frontend resources because"it's so easy to write html and scripts, why do you need these many people?" 😤

I know all three (and so much more), and I'm also good with CSS and design! 😊

Look into tailwindcss.com as an alternative to writing CSS. I grew up with css, built my first website before css even existed, big fan, BUT nowadays it feels like unnecessary overhead

Finally in demand

I’ve been told I’m weird for loving CSS; it sounds like you’re looking for someone like me! I’d love to learn more

CSS and GSAP here ;)

As a fullstack dev, that tagline is amazing 🎯

Since the site is focusing on CSS and not illustration, I think it checks out.

#AI is also TERRIBLE at this task

the best products are a delight to use. they solve users problems and are simple to use. write great code because it serves this purpose, not because you’re obsessed with writing the perfect code.

We recently ditched one overpriced OKR platform for another because of this problem

Well, shameless plug - If you're looking to hire a great #CSS guy, I'm your guy! 😌

Too many fullstack devs that throw a react + tailwind component lib into a project and claim job done.

any recommendations for resources to learn more advance modern CSS features focused around creating better user experiences?

💯 In many companies, the underlying code doesn't matter anywhere near as much as us devs would like. The UX is what customers care about

So much this. The danger is it's seen as "just CSS" by senior devs. Make sure you collect some data too!

you need to hire the very right people to give them this level of freedom tho outside tech bubble the real world is filled with “bare minumum” or “zero aesthetic” front-end engineers ☠️

And dear gods Someone make a new PoS system and implement them to registers. I've been working with ones I swear are as old as I am and None of them are good.

Hmm, I’m not sure if over hiring is a good idea. I can totally see people adding unnecessary dependencies and making the UI even slower and complicated just because they thought it was “fancy”

True. People ooh and ahh over a finely polished turd, but then walk right by the genuine diamond in the rough.

I wish more companies saw it this way. The industry is distracted by tooling and new dance crazes and it shows. Visit any modern website and you can see how low the bar is for what passes for production UX these days