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by pfschell 2732 days ago
Designers don't cause terrible designs like this. MBAs and marketing droids do.
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Pretty sure Facebook is not a company that is taken over by MBAs and marketers that are making this happen.

Rather it's an engineering-first organization, run by an engineer.

Probably a mix of everyone's fault.

How is an MBA or marketer evil in a way that Zuck isn’t?
That’s a bit reductive. You may be right, but it would be less facile to say that poor designs can be made by anybody, but that a mismatch between design and business objectives led to bad results. Not all business people are morons, and not all designers are good at design.
If the business objectives lead to a design so bad that it hurts the business, surely the people who came up with these objectives didn't do a very good job?