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PM looking at Concept Design: "There were checkboxes and now you have radio buttons"

Me: "Those are two separate screens. One is the user inventory, the other populates an add"

PM: "So which is it? Are we using checkboxes or radio buttons?"

Me:"...both? Each where it makes sense?"

PM: "So what's the point of the radio button? If the user can only click one row, why do we need a radio button?"

Me: "Visual representation of what they selected. We could use row highlighting as well, it doesn't really matter"

PM: "But what's the point?"

Me:"...."

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  • 1
    6y
    @ItsaMeTuni
    You're correct, they both work. We concepted it out so that checkboxes were for the inventory screen where the user could select multiple records.

    Then we concepted out radios on a screen where the user was only selecting one row, thinking them more appropriate.
  • 2
    6y
    @ItsaMeTuni
    Yeah, it's been a going trend with this guy. He's micromanaging the design when he knows nothing about UX/UI or the reasoning behind decisions.
    He just know's that he doesn't like how this or that looks.
  • 2
    6y
    But what does the user think?
  • 3
    6y
    @hypervtechnics
    That's the funny part. The users love the concepts. They occasionally have some minor tweak requests but for the most part, we've been nailing it.
  • 1
    6y
    None of it matters until users give you feedback on actual usage ☺️ Empathy maps are worth 10k opinions.
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