Once upon a time I made a UI where there were several things. One of them was a gigantic text box with the title "Biography" and another a 2 character wide box with a title "years of experience." We had to change that to a drop down. Why? Read on...
We got a lot of complaints. People couldn't see their resume in the "years of experience" box. Worse they kept getting error messages saying their resume was too long. It was restricted to 2 characters! These same people had glossed over the "biography" box.
So, yes, your ability to reason about a UI and the requisite UX has nothing to do with how others will reason about it. You'll get to learn the hard way like I did.
We got a lot of complaints. People couldn't see their resume in the "years of experience" box. Worse they kept getting error messages saying their resume was too long. It was restricted to 2 characters! These same people had glossed over the "biography" box.
So, yes, your ability to reason about a UI and the requisite UX has nothing to do with how others will reason about it. You'll get to learn the hard way like I did.