Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work

In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work. The first was a test of sorts. I showed the team a short screen recording of a small part of the Linear app: a series of three buttons, each illuminating when the mouse hovered over them and going dark when the mouse moved away. I asked the team if they could tell what was wrong with the interactions. Even after watching it a few times, no one could see it. Tha