A More Mauvy Shade of Pinky Russet

A pattern i’ve seen in my work over the last couple of years when engaged in very early “visioning” work is that of first designing the experience for “stakeholder sellability” to get internal buy-in and then worrying about “usability”. Of course its not as black and white as this – its just not in a UX professional’s genes to ignore usability but I do find myself saying “thats good enough for the stakeholder meeting, lets focus on something else right now – we can figure out a better, more usable way later”. Should I feel dirty? 😉