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Discussion on: Often neglected skills new devs should learn?

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Kasey Speakman

You will write much better software if you do this: Understand the user’s perspective. Users often assume the dev knows more about the uses of the program than they do. But I usually find the opposite is true. Devs know more about how things work internally, but that frequently bears little resemblance to user’s experience with the program. You will write much better software if you make the effort to understand your users. Dev and user are on the same team, each contributing their piece of the solution.