I redesigned the same button for 6 hours. The user never even saw it.

Hi PH

I'm Lily, a UX/UI designer based in Korea.

I once spent an entire afternoon obsessing over the corner radius of a single CTA button. 6 hours. Iterating in Figma. Trying 0px, 4px, 8px, 12px. Running it by teammates. Exporting 14 different versions.

The feature shipped. Analytics showed the button had a 0.3% click rate which meant about 97% of users never even reached it. The scroll depth data told me most of them left the page before that section existed.

I had optimized something nobody saw.

That was the moment I stopped treating "beautiful" as a goal and started treating it as a byproduct. Now I force myself to validate the logic before I touch Figma. It's uncomfortable. It's slower to start and faster to finish.

Fellow designers: What's the most time you've ever spent perfecting something that turned out to be totally invisible to real users?

I need to feel less alone here.