elemtilas

Whew... the internet is a scary place these days. Wherever I go, either I run into Corona conspiracy theories or into people telling the DeviantArt staff to kill themselves. Seriously. This makes me ashamed of belonging to the same species. I'm really fed up with the toxic discussion "culture" surrounding Eclipse, so I'd like to offer my own point of view. While I'm not a web developer myself, my day job is focused on the development of user interfaces. Last winter I was teaching students about the user-centered design process, and this included some lessons that I want to share here. Lessons from User-Centered Design 1) You cannot please everyone. There is no "one size fits all" solution. At best, you can develop something that is good for the majority of users - and yes, "majority" can mean as little as 51% in the worst case. So it is only natural that a lot of people will be unhappy with the final result. That's democracy for you. 2) Listen to every user, not only the one who