this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
433 points (96.0% liked)
Programmer Humor
18961 readers
1123 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This may shock and amaze you but...
there is more than one user for your product. If you don't know that, it sounds like you either haven't done a user survey or you haven't created the correct user profiles (based on that survey).
Creating a "perfect UI" without asking users what they want is not good UX. It's just masturbation. The user survey tells you that people want A B C, etc. and in which order. You should know exactly how your changes are going to be received when you release them.
Imagine a restaurant that doesn't ask you what you want. Instead the chef tells you "This is the best food possible" and just makes what they want. That's what developing without a user survey is like.
You're taking this far too literally. There's a good bit of hyperbole in play here for the purposes of making a joke.
Next you'll be telling me that's not you in the picture!
Imagine you’re the chef at a restaurant and the guest tells you they want the fluffiest pancace possible, positioned vertically on the plate. In fact, they want three of them, stacked on each others’ rims. And vegan with extra eggs.
And when you finally serve that aneurysm of a dish, they tell you that in their dialect, ‘pancake’ actually means ‘lasagna’.
The Expert: 7 Red Lines
Hopefully the pancake/lasagna garbage could be caught by sharing some wireframes early on?
(Is this unrealistic?)
In fact they want four of them, each perpendicular to all othes