Stop blaming your users

Kayla J Heffernan
3 min readOct 12, 2015

This post originally appeared on my blog http://www.kaylaheffernan.com/blog/2015/9/27/stop-blaming-your-users

I am a UX designer. When I walk up to a door that has a pull affordance (i.e. looks like it should be pulled), I pull it. If the door doesn’t open, because it’s actually a push door, I curse under my breath to the bad design of the door. I blame the designer of the door who gave it the wrong design — they made it…

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Kayla J Heffernan

Head of UX. Passionate about solving ambiguous problems with solutions that are accessible and inclusive. I write every couple of months about design.