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If you use Adobe, you’re not the prime design persona.

dylan604 2y ago
I don't get the implication. I never claimed I was a designer. I'm a get shit done type of person. An operator if you will. Scariest thing you can show me is a Cmd-n blank sheet of paper. Give me content and a task, and it'll get done. Your assumption I'm a designer is just that, and I'm perfectly fine being an ass on my own and do not need your help
- ChadNauseam 2y ago
  I think they might have been implying that you’re not the person they should be designing for. it’s arguable that they should be designing for people who have never used an image editor before. if they were optimizing for adobe users, they should just copy adobe as much as possible
  - whywhywhywhy 2y ago
    I’d argue they’re doing neither these things.
- brudgers 2y ago
  A design persona is an imaginary person that designers use when thinking about users at a medium level of abstraction…somewhere between actual users and demographics. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/personas-why-and-how-you-should-use-them?srsltid=AfmBOopXRI4HdFXW6wJubeyHgSr0rKXKZ3voGjW6ot_5XhXt0k1CEwJJ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/person... I didn’t assume anything about you. I took your words at face value. To the degree I said anything about you it was that perhaps Gimp is not for you (because everything isn’t for everybody).
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    A "design persona" is a stereotype that designers use to justify their decision to discriminate against some subset of users. It seems innocent at first, but it inevitably devolves into the developers crudely binning individual users who submit but reports of feature requests into those stereotypes and then, very often, disregarding their feedback without thoughtful consideration. "Our Personas document says this software isn't for engineers who taught themselves to use Linux in highschool. This guy who submitted a request to add tabs to the interface looks like a nerd, we don't need to take his suggestion seriously even though he's suggesting a normal thing people who fit into other personas would also find useful."

I don't get the implication. I never claimed I was a designer. I'm a get shit done type of person. An operator if you will. Scariest thing you can show me is a Cmd-n blank sheet of paper. Give me content and a task, and it'll get done. Your assumption I'm a designer is just that, and I'm perfectly fine being an ass on my own and do not need your help

ChadNauseam 2y ago
I think they might have been implying that you’re not the person they should be designing for. it’s arguable that they should be designing for people who have never used an image editor before. if they were optimizing for adobe users, they should just copy adobe as much as possible
- whywhywhywhy 2y ago
  I’d argue they’re doing neither these things.
brudgers 2y ago
A design persona is an imaginary person that designers use when thinking about users at a medium level of abstraction…somewhere between actual users and demographics. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/personas-why-and-how-you-should-use-them?srsltid=AfmBOopXRI4HdFXW6wJubeyHgSr0rKXKZ3voGjW6ot_5XhXt0k1CEwJJ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/person... I didn’t assume anything about you. I took your words at face value. To the degree I said anything about you it was that perhaps Gimp is not for you (because everything isn’t for everybody).
- lupusreal 2y ago
  A "design persona" is a stereotype that designers use to justify their decision to discriminate against some subset of users. It seems innocent at first, but it inevitably devolves into the developers crudely binning individual users who submit but reports of feature requests into those stereotypes and then, very often, disregarding their feedback without thoughtful consideration. "Our Personas document says this software isn't for engineers who taught themselves to use Linux in highschool. This guy who submitted a request to add tabs to the interface looks like a nerd, we don't need to take his suggestion seriously even though he's suggesting a normal thing people who fit into other personas would also find useful."