The problem to that is you'll have more chance to find a job as a designer if designers think you're cool, but low usage but in reality, you’ll most often be hired by design managers.
good designers can do 1 and 2
Nan Yu@thenanyu
Put more bluntly, many designers I've worked with care more about the opinions of other designers than of their users. If you had to choose 1. designers think you're cool, but low usage 2. heavy usage, other designers think its lame which one do you choose? every PM picks 2
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