Redlines

Let's get ready to rumble: when PM/Eng and Design disagree (#4)


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We’ve all been there: we come up with a great, groundbreaking, REVOLUTIONARY design idea. We spend days lovingly crafting it pixel by pixel. We keep it warm at night and give it all the nutrients it needs to grow and prosper. And then, when we finally present our beloved creation to our PM and Engineering partners… it all falls apart. For some reason they just can’t see what we see, and find a dozen different reasons why we shouldn’t build this idea, from budget restrictions to technological limitations. So what do we do then? In this episode we discuss the reasons these misalignments happen, how to negotiate our way around it, and we try to answer the hard question: Maybe it’s design that’s in the wrong?

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RedlinesBy Omri Dvir & Aaron Draczynski