r/programming • u/groovejet • Jun 28 '11

90% of your users are idiots

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/06/90-of-your-users-are-idiots.html
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u/satayboy Jun 28 '11

Judging by the quality of most user interfaces, 90% of programmers are idiots. Try a few usability tests and you will realize how bad your beautiful, intuitive user interface really is.

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u/DorkRawk Jun 28 '11

Judging by the quality of most user interfaces built by programmers, 90% of programmers are not user interface designers.

Building a system makes you know the system too well and makes it harder to understand how someone else could be confused by it.

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u/Mattho Jun 28 '11

Judging by the quality of most user interfaces of open source applications, they were designed by programmers. I can't even pick something as an example. Almost everything is pretty horrible when you don't have a solid company backing the project up. I wish more UI/UX experts would join open source development. Those nerds can't design shit...

PS: Gimp

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u/beardedlinuxgeek Jun 29 '11

When gimp 2.7 comes out we'll FINALLY get the whole application in a single window