There are a lot of people who pose as UX specialists that think they know what users want, but in fact they just copy whatever is the current trend from twitter/instagram/whatever and act as if that was absolute truth (of course, until the next platform invents something completely new and has success with that, changing the paradigm).
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There are also a lot of designers who change things just to change things, with little regard for how it will negatively affect user experience.
I'll push back slightly. If users have become accustomed to a particular way of doing things, doing it that way presents the least amount of surprise, so it is at least a somewhat good UX (in terms of least suprise) even if it is a fundamentally bad UX.
But overall I agree. People would benefit greatly if they took the effort to rethink everything from scratch, even if they ends up in the same place much of the time. It's quite easy to do it if you hold the working belief that you are very smart and most things were designed by people less intelligent than yourself.
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Yep... in the box thinkers...
Seen my share of it and seen them step in the same holes in the beaten path and going of the cliff,
As a retired IT project & process manager, I've ideas but nobody interested to listen.
I sometimes wonder how Satoshi Nakamoto got his wild idea of the ground.
This is why we stuck with a Drudge Report look for the #[2] website. That was #[3]‘s idea.
Modern usually means it’s about to change in a week. Bitcoin doesn’t change. This might go over the head of a lot of people, but I like it 😂
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
-- Mark Twain
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I don’t agree with it. I remember that the Nostr agreement was also marked with “twitter” at the beginning, “We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.” Of course, Nostr’s soil will give birth to a different user experience, which will take time.
Blue ocean strategy 🌊 speaks about just that.
Decent example is how Cirque de Soleil, took a 1) low-margin business of 2) high-cost main performers and cheap tickets targeting 3) youth & families. Instead they built a 1) high-margin product with 2) lower cost performers targetting expensive tickets for 3) a wealthy adult audience.
The same pivots are happening in software and with even fewer clowns & stage performers 🤡
I should clarify that the low-margin business was the traditional circus