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hobbyist game developer, professional procrastinator, and kink trash goblin


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gods professional UX is such bullshit

stakeholders, focus groups, statistical analysis, and heatmaps are where design goes to die. they're the reasons why every website nowadays is either designed by committee or a cookie cutter clone, because either they come up with insane caricatures of users to test by or they try and pursue some concept of "perfect usability", which is the design equivalent of boiled, concentrated piss

the only times I've ever made something usable and unique in any reasonable length of time are when I've tried just using the thing myself. "users" are people. you are a person. I am a person, ergo I can just judge for myself if something was easy or hard to do. the term "users" is honestly kinda dehumanising, and I regret that I've fallen into using it myself

trying to turn design of any kind into a science and trying to "perfect" it is just a step away from advertising and marketing horseshit, chasing metrics of dubious worth to reach some impossible idea of perfection and selling your fucking soul in the process

I swear this was all dreamt up by middle management and CEOs so they could have their pretty graphs and because they don't trust the people they hired to not fuck up


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