In a recent blog, I remarked how we always seem a bit short-staffed when it comes to our UX team, who come up with the User Interface designs, provide icons, and write the user-facing text that appears on buttons and dialog boxes.
On our stand-up update, a developer, Andy, was explaining his interaction with a new member of the UX team. Just like a lot of recent hires, it seems we have just hired anyone that applied.
Andy wanted an icon, and they sent him a screenshot of the icon rather than the actual file.
So he asked for the actual icon file, and they sent him an icon file but it looked a bit different from the screenshot.
So he questioned if it was right, and they sent him the icon he expected, but he noticed it had a transparent background and he wanted white.
She is like “it is white, you can see it on my screenshot”, and he is like “no, it is showing as white because the graphics program’s background is white.”
It’s very alarming that we are hiring a UX designer that doesn’t seem to understand the concept of transparency and doesn’t understand to send the files she creates rather than screenshotting them. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
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