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Social Design

I have used my share of software tools with terrible user interfaces, and I have read even more complaints from other people about such tools. Why can’t the designers just put themselves in the shoes of the users, mentally, and think about what kind of interface would be the most convenient and useful? Those stupid autistic programmers must be completely devoid of any trace of empathy to produce such designs, surely. If we could only make sure such design work is done by reasonable people thinking about others, it surely would be must better!

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