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Counterpoint: devs frequently downplay user's needs and inflate the importance of their own ideas.
Then share this comic back forth literally every time users complain.
Someone, in the slack channels of reddit's devs, shared this exact comic with this exact attitude because of the backlash.
This is it exactly. Was a product manager and this is exactly the issue I faced with devs that had no real world usage experience.
Our users are literially the most irritating people on earth
Wh have met with the users who use our product. But they don't seem very able to articulate what it is they actually want or need from the system. It's always vague ideas and nothing actionable.
This is usually met with either a vague "yeah" or "no not like that", and then they never elaborate.
Nah. I'm pretty sure they're mad too. They just can't really do anything against it since it's not their decision
I met a user for a tool I built at work. It was the worst.