> Some people don’t care enough > > The more people you hire, the more likely you are to hire people who don’t care enough about good interface design. Good interface design needs to be valued by everyone who can affect the work. That includes developers, designers, product managers, and often the CEO.

I know where you're going with this, but here's a twist:

A CEO who cares about interface _design_ is path to micromanaging and pain. A CEO should care about interface _designers_, who are (hopefully) the people trained on how do it well.

Even better: CEOs should care about developers with UI/UX skills, because too often CEOs adopt designers like a pet and keep them busy 24/7 asking for mockups.

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jonathanlydall 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My assumption when reading that the CEO should care, was that they give those underneath them the time and resources needed to achieve quality because they value it, not that they are necessarily involved in the details.

	▲	doginasuit 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To care enough to recognize it is out of your depth.

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sscaryterry 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A CEO should know when the people working for them are bullshitting them, blowing smoke...

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pydry 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>A CEO who cares about interface _design_ is path to micromanaging and pain.

That's how Apple blew up into a trillion dollar company.

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nitwit005 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Plenty of successful companies that didn't have a great UI, and plenty of failures that did.

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chrisweekly 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also how countless other companies didn't.

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Arainach 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...while being a painful place to work at, so not really disproving the point.

Plenty of other CEOs have thought the secret to Apple's success was micromanaging like Steve Jobs and been proved very wrong.

The best CEOs hire people smarter than them (in their respective disciplines) rather than assuming they always know best.

	▲	testfrequency 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those CEOs are often not around though once the company has fully matured. Then it’s back to micro managing and endless unclear company priorities..