Andriod vs Apple UI/UX patterns debate
As the topic suggest, working in a bank's UI/UX department this is one of the UI and UX pattern fights that often happens either pushed by the designer or the developers. Majority of the time when I witness these kinds of battles either it is from legacy old learning that is not updated to the current patterns or something that used to be there, therefore it must be true. And I awed to see these kinds of debates where primary focus should always have been focused on providing customer a good solutions following the updated UX patterns. Because, everything evolves I believe.
Anyhow, the recent debate was whether the Android uses chevron to indicate it navigates to a child view page that is similar to the iOS. And the push back came from the Android developers who said that the chevron is not used, the designer had done pretty well research and had updated the design system to align the navigable component to have the same for both Android and Apple.
The time spent on debate and push back was for what I do wonder. And most of the time I see people jump into the solution and start speculating things how the customer would use the interface. Everything is built on assumption without validations. This made me curious, so I went and validated some other financial apps like Transfer wise, to my surprise their UI and UX patterns follow the same in both platforms. I wonder now every time when people start talking about these staying true to the native patterns do they really update their information, or they just say the things because in big corporate environment seniority and authoritative figures are always right.