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[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 79 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Is that the engineers fault? Or is that the people who are supposed to check for usability after the engineer is done designing the functional aspects? Because it's not usually an engineer's job to do this...

Basic product testing is the foundation of manufacturing, an error like this doesn't get all the way through production and it still be just the engineers fault.

[–] Beanerrr@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Checking for usability is one of the key parts of design iteration, which is done by product engineers. Source: am product engineer

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Former mechanical design engineer checking in as well: can confirm, the engineer's fault here.

You don't just design it just to work, a hobbyist can do that.

Edit: Not saying I have never made a mistake, everyone makes mistakes. And of course in a proper (especially big) design department someone always cross checks your work, so there must've been multiple people to blame. But mistakes happen and that alone is no reason to fire someone.

In my first job a senior told me that you will experience making an expensive mistake and that it'll be a good lesson (I did).

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