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-eth
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!Rant

Designer decide to have a meeting with stakeholders about UX/UI workflow for control panel of our new embedded system (no framework, no library, gui is bit per bit rendered on frame buffer).
A week later, still nothing on my table, not a mail, not a call. Meanwhile I wrote a framework, the control system, renderer, and messaging queues between tasks.
Wrote some widgets, a layout system and a view swtching mechanism, and a separate stack control to use a "back" button.

Now I am stuck for I do not know what should happen when clicking on various (non obvious) items on the touchscreen.
Fine, I'll ask the designer.

"Oh, I will write the workflow next week" (ETA time, 2 weeks. Seriously? You take a week to draw on Adobe Illustrator 20 screenshot with text and I have another week to write it from scratch in C?)
Ok, while you write it, just tell me what should happen when I click an active item.
"Well, we didn't talk about that. We just decided the colour of the icons on the screen..."
For fuck sake...

Comments
  • 3
    Yes talking about those kind of stuff is what they are paid for ;-)
  • 3
    I feel you, man. They just know that they get away with it.
    Also FYI tags are comma separated and spaces are valid tags.😁
  • 1
    @vringar ops! Thanks!
  • 4
    Why is this not a rant? Sounds like proper ranting to me!
  • 2
    @siljamicke
    Sounds like I am a total noob and misunderstood the !Rant usage. Fixing it

    Edit: sounds like I am a squared noob as I cannot edit a lost after 5min from posting
  • 1
    @-eth I'm being humble here, it might very well be that I misunderstood the usage of !Rant
  • 2
    @siljamicke @-eth no, you are right.
    !Rant is reserved for non rant.
  • 1
    @siljamicke nope, you are right
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