Moses R. Kaluba

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When Developers Fall in Love With the Wrong Perspective

The comic below is a perfect reflection of one of software engineering’s biggest traps, designing for ourselves instead of the user.

On the left, the developers are thrilled. The product looks great from their viewpoint. But from the user’s side (the baby’s), it’s confusing, upside down, and completely unusable.

In software engineering, this happens more often than we admit. We fall in love with our architecture, elegant code, or clever design, but forget usability, accessibility, and real-world context.

Here’s how to avoid that trap 👇

1. User-Centered Design (UCD):
Always design with empathy. Gather feedback early, test prototypes, and observe how users interact with your product.

2. Agile + Continuous Feedback Loops:
Don’t wait until the final build to show users. Involve them sprint by sprint. Short iteration cycles reduce the cost of fixing usability flaws.

3. UI/UX Collaboration:
Developers and designers must work as one team. Code can be perfect, but if the experience isn’t intuitive, the product fails.

4. Dogfooding is not equal to Usability Testing:
Testing your own product isn’t enough. You already know how it’s supposed to work. Real users don’t.

5. Measure Real Success:
It’s not about how we feel after shipping it’s about how seamlessly users can achieve their goals.

TAKE AWAY👇
If your users are “seeing the toy from below,” no amount of clean code can fix a bad experience. Build what they love, not what you love.

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