So, some great conversations at #fossback26 design. And some that really frustrated me. During the "how to bridge the gap between "ultra-nerdy" devs and designers" barcamp, someone said "we have to decide who to disappoint when making design decision", and someone else said "spoiler: it's the power users".
If our attitude towards #uxdesign is "fuck the power users", we'll never have good UX in open source.
@marmarta Good UX requires validation by testing with actual users achieving their goals, not designers making things appeal to their aesthetic sensibilities (which seems to drive at least some of these anti-power user sentiments). The latter can be helpful too, but since most designers working on FLOSS lack resources needed to do the former it often ends up actually detrimental to UX...
@dos it definitely is part of the problem, but I think that a big thing is that a lot of UX training and a lot of most important UX books are all about streamlining, removing thinking from user experience and generally making things seamless and inobtrusive. Which serves great if you want to sell things, but shouldn't always be the goal - but it isn't that easy to find good UX information that is not focused on that.
