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In my industry experience (have worked for web design firms, and currently work on a public app), designers just mimic what everyone else does and just put fluff all over the place to make it conform.
Very few actually focus on true user experience.
Those buttons have a place on a contact us page, but other than that they are filler
I think it depends what the button function is - if it's to go to the social channel of the business whose website you're on, I agree the Contact Us page is the place for them.
However I think OP is talking about the type that is intended to share the current webpage onto the user's own socials. That wouldn't fit on Contact Us, except to share the contact us page :-)
Agreed about designers doing what everyone else does, but I'd add to that, that it may be client-driven - a lot of clients I've worked with see these things on other sites and so assume that they need them too. Even if the designer wanted to remove them, the client would likely insist π
As a ux designer I can confirm this. Actual usability studies and accessible design? Nah. Not when management makes the calls.
That must feel soul sucking to build :(
As long as the check clears.
Welcome to IT. Spend a decade or more learning and specialising your craft. Be out managed by a junior product manager. π«
I just turn off my brain and copy and paste the templates. The world is run by little Elons who think that because theyβre an exec, that they know best.
Going to school and learning and being skilled is a scam. Iβm telling my kids to learn to farm if I have any.
Ugh it's like that in every undustry. In mine it's like most directors know what actually should be done. But then they just get constantly overruled by the VPs and Ps.