The design justification tax

👤 Vlad Derdeicea
📅 2026-03-03

Why design decisions take 5x longer to approve and what to do about it. Image generated with MidjourneyEvery design decision carries a surcharge. When your engineering counterpart walks into a meeting and says “we need to refactor the authentication module,” the room nods. It’s technical. It sounds expensive to ignore. Nobody asks for a prototype. When you walk into the same meeting … Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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