The Curse of Knowledge in UX Teams
The curse of knowledge does more damage to design communication than any skills gap. Once you know something, you can’t imagine not knowing it, and your reasoning goes unrecorded as a result.
The curse of knowledge does more damage to design communication than any skills gap. Once you know something, you can’t imagine not knowing it, and your reasoning goes unrecorded as a result.
Most design documentation defends a conclusion rather than recording reasoning. Learn the difference between rationale and justification, and why only one survives contact with a future reader.
Good design decisions get reversed not because they were wrong, but because the reasoning behind them was never made visible. Here’s that mechanism and how to protect your work.