I think a lot of it's about, you know, seeing, recognizing our sameness and really empathizing with the situations that people find them and themselves in. I feel like personas in a lot of cases, which we use in the UX world, quite often to remind us of the sorts of people that we're building things from can sometimes be a little two-dimensional. Being able to really quickly put yourself in your end customer's position and kind of see things from their perspective gives you new insight into how you should be building things.
Aaron Gustafson inspires us to build a web for all people. He encourages us to keep an open mind about perspectives that are different than our own. He motivates us to keep focused on context when it comes to the users we’re designing for. He also challenges us to plant seeds of growth in others […]