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[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 6 days ago (15 children)

To everybody acting like the desire path is the problem:

  1. If the problem for you is that it's 'bad' or 'illegal', grow a spine so that when you need to break the law, for something that matters, you can do it with dry pants.
  2. If the design doesn't take into account how people will interact with it, it's bad and lazy. Only time it would be acceptable to 'force' a way to interact with something is when there are safety concerns, and there are none here.
  3. You are traped in a cage of your own making, break free or perish like the dog you are.
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Not that I have a particular problem with desire paths, but what's shown in the comic here is an example of how the design changed to take into account how people are interacting with it, and yet it didn't work out.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, that person you replied to missed the point entirely, and all the people who up-voted them.

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh. What is the point then? /gen

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

For me, it was heavy on the "you can't please everyone" aspect. You try and try, first at enforcing the solution you thought was best, but people have their own problems and their own agenda. Then you try to accommodate that. But you'll find that there's always someone whom you can't please.

That was my personal take-away.

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