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It is hard to design something good for users you look down on, because you cannot stay interested in something you do not like yourself.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

Subjectdesign

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

On the topicWho 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

    Morale is another reason that it's hard to design something for an unsophisticated user. It's hard to stay interested in something you don't like yourself. To make something good, you have to be thinking, "wow, this is really great," not "what a piece of shit; those fools will love it."

    Where this was said

    ↗Design and Researchpaulgraham.com

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