It's so bad. How many header sections does one site need?
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I see this so often from developers and engineers. At some point, they got it into their head that they're also competent website designers and they end up creating sites that are absolute garbage. They're like, "well, I can write code so that means I can easily whip up competent website that meets the needs to the intended audience!" Lol no.
There's a reason website development and UX design are entirely seperate careers. With few exceptions, devs aren't qualified to create effective websites. It's just not the same skillset. And then they typically get defensive when you offer up any criticism, and they double down on insisting that it's good enough.
Effective, professional websites need both competent programmers, and competent designers. And this is a perfect example of that delusional mistake.
I dunno, I think they're doing their best and I wouldn't assume hubris/neckbeard "design/ux is for retards" behaviour (though that definitely is a thing, fuck me the battles I've had with those types of devs over the years!).
But Nostr.com is such an important domain I think being terse is warranted, you'd be hung drawn and quartered in any competent agency for producing the mess they have.
Luckily geniuses like you and me are here to save the day heckin' lol.
Agree it's a different skillset and requires ProTier designers. Unfortunately there's no money in it so all the good designers have focused on Web3 and fucking NFTs. Example: https://www.maciej.co/
Disagree the team are delusional as I've seen them make numerous changes and attempts to engage community in feedback over the past week.
I don't believe in mincing words when the design, ux, content strategy and IA is as egregious as it is but let's refrain from slander 😁.
I didn't say they weren't doing their best. And what I said doesn't come remotely close to slander. Putting aside the fact that slander is spoken defamation, not written, I wasn't talking specifically about them. I was using this situation to comment on the common misjudgement of developers and engineers who erroneously believe they are well suited to also take on the job of professional website design.
I have no way way of knowing for a fact what the circumstances are behind this specific website, but it certainly has all the hallmarks of the scenario I described. This site was clearly not designed by someone who understands how to efficiently and effectively create an educational website intended to onboard new users to an unfamiliar platform.
It's not a personal insult, and it's not a knowing lie about a particular person intended to defame. So, it's neither slander, nor libel (written defamation). It's a speculative commentary on the trend of developers believing they are suited to crank out effective educational websites.
