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>it was developer-driven instead of UX-driven... This right here speaks so much truth to so many side projects that into products that then fail.

• jimmaswell 7y ago
  I wish we could just make people smarter instead of having to dumb everything down with handholding UX. Too bad that's impossible.
  • goldenchrome 7y ago
    In general, people aren't dumb. They simply don't care to learn how to use your software and just want it to "do the damn thing". Also, your software probably isn't as easy to use as you think.
    • fastball 7y ago
      Well, 50% of people are dumber than average.
      • thombat 7y ago
        50% are dumber than the median. Confusing mean and median might be a telltale for which half of the population an individual belongs to :-)
        • SuoDuanDao 6y ago
          I thought we had all agreed to pretend that intelligence is normally distributed? ;-)
        • boomlinde 6y ago
          ”Average” can mean either.
  • smabie 7y ago
    People are getting smarter as time goes on, so maybe we'll have good UX in a 100 years or something.
  • fauigerzigerk 7y ago
    I don't see a contradiction between offering a task oriented "dumb" UI and surfacing a consistent model that allows people to get more powers if and when they need them. Good tools do both.
  • underwater 7y ago
    UX isn't, or shouldn't, be about dumbing it down. It's about really understanding people's problems and making sure you are actually addressing them.