The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
8 people recommended it in 8 threads, 2009–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Inmates argues that programmers tend to hijack the product design process because they can (programmers write the code after all), and that products suffer as a result.
This book made me feel like a shit developer, but also made me change the way I think about software. I think it made me a much better developer in how I approach a problem and how I solve it for the customer.
This book changed the way I think about user experience as a developer. I’m not a designer at all but when building a UI I try to think of it from a user perspective now because of this book.
It really made me think differently about software design and how users interact with it. I think a lot of “ux” people would benefit from reading it because many “ux” experts seem to get so much wrong.
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