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Re:Design for programmers by V-2 on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:45AM (#8349629)
As a programmer myself, I believe there is some truth to it though. Programmers tend to be superusers and therefore design for other superusers.

By the way, old but gold: "User Interface Design For Programmers" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html

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Re:Design for programmers by normloman on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @02:00PM (#8356901)
But doctors tend to be doctors and tend to design for other doctors.

This problem is not unique to programmers.

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Re:Design for programmers by V-2 on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @06:37PM (#8358782)
Yes it's not unique in principle, but programmers find themselves having to do UI design (or at least contribute to it) way more often than lawyers, nuclear physicists or beekeepers ;) That's why this issue keeps returning.

There's also the (absolutely false) notion that designing interfaces somehow is a subset of a programming skillset, so if one is a proficient coder, they're by definition capable of delivering sensible UI solutions, pretty much like an academic could teach in their field in high school since they already know more than enough

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