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Design is for users, but you have to design what the user needs rather than what he says he wants.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

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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.

designunder our current: The user is not you: design for what they need, and study them to improve what exists Who should design software, and how?under our view: Design for users without taking their orders, and remember that you are not the user

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What Paul Graham actually said

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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    The answer to the paradox, I think, is that you have to design for the user, but you have to design what the user needs, not simply what he says he wants.

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