Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.
— Leisa Reichelt
I found this quote to be very appropriate after watching the Maya Lin video. I found it on designwashere.com. It is from Leisa Reichelt, a designer who specializes of User Experience and User Centered Design. I find that often when I am working on a craft project I have people putting in their input as to how I should make something or how I should have done if differently. I understand how frustrating this can be since often the people putting in their input do not know how to knit or crochet. It can be aggravating trying to explain you have to do it a certain way because otherwise the rest of the pattern will not work. Most people became interested in design because they get something out of it. When you start designing for other people it can take the joy out of the process. Though it does not apply to my crafting it can also destroy he message the designer is trying to convey. If you design something that one group likes and you try to change aspects of it to try to please another group you may loose the qualities the first group liked in the first place. I think designers should take a cue from Leisa and design for themselves if someone else likes it great but no one else does at least you can stand behind it.
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