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11 months ago User-centred design at Textile and for the decentralised internet world at large requires quite a bit of nuance in understanding the user. This is because the user is often times a developer working on bleeding edge technologies and requires complex tools to navigate the space. In a nascent space such as this where the end-user software is equally complex and tool and transaction based, it has to date largely been a struggle to help build tools that build tools. Designers and developers can begin looking at what is happening in terms of platform design, that is, the design of a loose base where many things can happen rather than a strict set of premeditated and guided interactions, for instance through guidelines and developing best practices. This helps insure that the many times there isn’t necessarily a designer, that the end user, who could also be another developer, will get the best experience based on evidence and design thinking.
How we approach user design
by Jim Kosem
User-centred design at Textile and for the decentralised internet world at large requires quite a bit of nuance in understanding the user. This is because the user is often times a developer working on bleeding edge technologies and requires complex tools to navigate the space. In a nascent space such as this where the end-user software is equally complex and tool and transaction based, it has to date largely been a struggle to help build tools that build tools. Designers and developers can begin looking at what is happening in terms of platform design, that is, the design of a loose base where many things can happen rather than a strict set of premeditated and guided interactions, for instance through guidelines and developing best practices. This helps insure that the many times there isn’t necessarily a designer, that the end user, who could also be another developer, will get the best experience based on evidence and design thinking.
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