As a User Experience Designer, I help design tools for a living. I work among folks with an eye for user-centric design principles, affordances, and user research. Even though we work in this industry, it's not uncommon to hear or voice complaints about the tools and software we use… with no effort to fix it. "I wish that X worked a little more like Y" or "why can't I get straight to Z functionality without all these menus?" While you can't change everything about the software you use, you ca...

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