UX designers that think about "the normies" are the real "you'll own nothing and be happy" evil types.

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"We must reduce the UI to have no information at all, only a single button, very large, that these disgusting dumb people can click whenever they are hungry."

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Yes, they deserve to suffer

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Ha, it's a downward spiral isn't it?

Problem: The normies have been coddled and catered to their whole lives.

Solution: Coddle and cater to them even more.

Tough love is necessary.

I agree! I prefer my software has it's many settings in a text file, with helpful comments 💜

Command line only

Do you mean like Will, Vitor or other client devs?

They have done solid work on accessible and intuitive UX design.

I think good UI is mainly efficient flow.

Yet having a functional wheel rolling is more important than instant efficiency.

It's my belief that UX design teams should be hired on a contract only basis. That way they don't feel the need to constantly move stuff around and break things to justify their existence.

Unfortunately they are correct. If the cantillons design to enslave with UX in mind, and we design against UX for impracticalities, we will lose. Imagine we argued against BIP-39 because, why simplify the UX and treat people like dummies?

We are fundamentally apes, except for the few things we manage to focus on. We can’t expect everyone to be expert in everything. It is okay to reduce complexity to others so they can specialize in their domain for us in return

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The best UI of all time from Idiocracy

Depends on the situation. I’m thinking of 1-click tools like Tor browser - sure you can be a Tor power user, but maybe the “normie” in this case is a less technical journalist or activist. They need secure defaults and a tool that does its job and stays out of their way. Less options, less room for error.

We can't all be power users of everything, we're all the "normie" in some facet of our lives.

On the flip side, it could be that "UX for normies" is a becoming a trendy excuse for lazy UX. Maybe we need to try harder to find intuitive ways to represent more complex functionality, without removing the need for people to think and make decisions for themselves 🤷

Cry harder!