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First rule of design: Know your user. Second rule of design: You (the designer) are not the user. I think the general criticisms here are because this designer

First rule of design: Know your user. Second rule of design: You (the designer) are not the user. I think the general criticisms here are because this designer didn't follow these 2 basic rules.

IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago
They have >500 commits on Github in the last year. I’m pretty sure that makes them a user: https://github.com/tonsky https://github.com/tonsky First rule of life: don’t stereotype people (“designers aren’t coders”). Second rule: check before leveling ad hominems.
- drusepth 8y ago
  For what it's worth, 500 commits is <2 commits per weekday for a year, which seems pretty low for the kind of power user I would assume github is actually designed towards.
  - tuananh 8y ago
    maybe work stuff ain't on github?