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Comment by shevy-java

13 hours ago

> The website isn't for the founder, the marketing manager, or the board. It's for the person you've never met - the customer

Actually - the websites I create, design and maintain, are ... primarily for me. I am a very critical user though, so I am also a great feedback person. I tell myself "you need to improve this". Then I either do so, or put it in a todo file that is rarely looked at lateron again. So I don't agree that a website is not "for you". I think that a website CAN be for you. The article makes no such distinction; it only insinuates that everyone is incompetent and designs for things other people may not need or want.

Besides, people are also different - designing a perfect webpage is not possible. You have to make compromises. Take reddit.com - I can only use old.reddit.com because the new interface is so useless. That's one example of so many more that could be given here.

You seem to be responding to the title, not the article content. Your website is your own, and that's not what the article is addressing.

You don't have designers and governing boards; it's written about sites for bigger organizations.