Seeing things I’ve worked on shipped is a bittersweet moment for me.
Sweet, because it’s shipped and it’s out there ready to blossom.
Bitter, because they are often not how I designed them exactly. Something is always off design-wise.
I know things can be cleaned up over time, but still - first impressions matter.
I wound never do it to you 🐶🐾🫂🤣💜🙏🏻
Two possible things happen:
1. the design was too hard and the engineer cut some corners to fit into the release
2. the engineer didn't even realize the difference.
2 happens a lot. Engineers don't have the eyes of a designer. I would help them realize what they got wrong.
But 1 should be a lesson learned. The design can always improve, but it is likely to stay in the style that it was coded. :(
Speaking from front dev experience, it’s hard to switch the brain into design perfection when you’ve just exhausted yourself on code.
I feel this all the time even in webflow where it’s much easier to make changes. The temptation is to just say “good enough!” But this is exactly when I push myself not to release the thing and I think most devs don’t.
