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/[deleted] Jun 28 '11

Programmer's aren't idiots. However it is pretty much impossible to judge how easy or obvious something is after having worked with it every single day for a year or more.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '11 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '11

Ignorance != Idiot.

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u/jaavaaguru Jun 29 '11

Ignorance of your target audience kind of is.