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> I'm consistently surprised by how quick so many developers are to assume their personal usage habits To be fair, developers coming from math and CS backgroun

• vidarh 3y ago
  Most frontend developers also don't have much - if any - HCI/UX/design training. My experience is that a lot of people who should have had that instead see design as "above" that in a way that is worse by far by showing active disdain for user feedback. Often, in fact, by dismissing input from a user perspective from developers with a "oh, but you're not typical users". Which is on one hand usually fair, but on the other hand dismissing that they also are users, and often there is no such thing as a "typical" user. If one segment of your users reports something as a problem, you need to at least try to understand why and whether it is possible to reconcile with what your other users want, or whether in fact your other users also would agree but just haven't been vocal about it.
• sabellito 3y ago
  Your point has truth in it of course, but the main theme gp was pointing out is the hubris of people, often in our field, to think that they know better than someone specialised on a given field.
  • zarathustreal 3y ago
    Are you conflating “hubris” with “reasoning”? Or are you saying that appealing to authority is a good thing? Is any evaluation of any field you’re not an expert in hubris? Or is it possible to use basic logic to identify contradictions in the assertions made by experts outside your field?