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  • I mean designers would also be important in that equation, the problem is just that design has been cannibalized by marketing and branding

    But like, where an engineer solves physics problems (and software developers solve logic problems), designers solve human problems. So ergonomics, intuitive controls, a design that has useful features for basic tasks and makes sense for daily life, that communicates saftey information in an effective and clear way, and accessibility, are all things a designer would be more suited to than an engineer

    Unfortunately companies are increasingly corrupting the role of designers from “being the advocate of the end user” to being another bs marketing person who does whatever will look shiny and sell more units, while ignoring stuff that actually matters.

    But design is also deeply important to building a thing that is well considered and doesnt suck



  • I definitely agree with asking questions first. I’ve tried to open by explaining how I see things in an effort to get folks to open up and share how they see them, and people are so used to that being an attempt to tell them to think something different they can kinda shut down and get defensive even just from that

    Try to get them talking and engage with them sincerely. If we want to fix the problems we have to do the work to build a bigger coalition