> To be good at UX you need to put yourself in the shoes of your grandma and see things as she sees it, which is the opposite of the 'tech' way of thinking.
No, you don't. UX can mean 'ls' just as much as it can Metro just as much as it can MATLAB.
> like creating minimal circuits that do several things at once.
There's a presumption here that this has limited impact on the design of the overall product. It doesn't.
"UX can mean 'ls' just as much as it can Metro just as much as it can MATLAB."
True, having Dvorak is a nice feature, but it's not the whole thing. You can certainly have a UX expert pouring over Matlab commands, then you would be considering several aspects, and would get a friendly command line interface, but not only one aspect as in that case.
"There's a presumption here that this has limited impact on the design of the overall product. It doesn't"
For the Apple I, it was certainly essential, since every part saved could save something like $10, $20 or even more (in 1980 dollars). Nowadays, not so much. Today you can fit the whole Apple I inside a FPGA (around $10) with room to spare.
No, you don't. UX can mean 'ls' just as much as it can Metro just as much as it can MATLAB.
> like creating minimal circuits that do several things at once.
There's a presumption here that this has limited impact on the design of the overall product. It doesn't.