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Complaints about the things you chose not to prioritise are a sign your design succeeded, and should not be fixed.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Ian Hickson actually said

  1. Ian Hickson British software engineer
    The worst thing to do, when you receive such complaints, is take them to heart and try to fix them. This is because by definition you wanted these complaints. They are a sign that the thing you built is built as you wanted to build it.

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