I've been a UI designer/developer since 1998 when my band decided it needed a website. I'm currently working on an E2EE, P2P PWA called TallyLab. I'm also a volunteer instructor for Girls Who Code.
Such an important thing to point out! My focus in this battle has been on the word "obviously", but I've also heard engineers in particular actually use the word "trivial" itself. As in, "it should be trivial for you to do xyz." Should it? What if it turns out not to be trivial? It often doesn't add anything helpful to use these types of words, but it does risk alienating people from each other and themselves.
Such an important thing to point out! My focus in this battle has been on the word "obviously", but I've also heard engineers in particular actually use the word "trivial" itself. As in, "it should be trivial for you to do xyz." Should it? What if it turns out not to be trivial? It often doesn't add anything helpful to use these types of words, but it does risk alienating people from each other and themselves.
Alienating is such a great word for this! I may steal it when I taught about this topic in the future 😂😂