A message to the NOSTR dev community. I see devs (founders) hyperfocused on shipping features rather than designing valuable user journeys. This is the main reason why many projects/apps fail on adoption IMO. NOSTR app are full of friction and usability problems. Everyone is copying eachothers patterns and assumptions about what apps should be. Most are designing for their own persona which is not representative for most users. The solution is to give UX leads ownership over the user journey, instead of devs dominating every decision and shipping before actual user testing and research/understand their needs. To make things easy and engaging, requires knowledge about user psychology which most devs lack. Move beyond. Or the centralized world will win this battle without a serious fight. Kind regards, Steve Jobs

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some of these apps are in development state or not maintained, if you have problems you can report them. Push and test, but if they are the same developers who test they have trained eyes
I won’t say all of them, but most of the client devs are focused on being #nostrfamous rather than trying to make an overall better platform to use. I don’t think there is one client where all of the available features work, not one. It’s open source yet they aren’t even utilizing that other than to tell people they can check the code if they want. Yeah, because the average person has an understanding of git vernacular. 🤦🏻‍♂️
nostrdesign i think is not updated anymore, sometimes some developers are just trying if it works, without thinking about aesthetics, users, market and all the other things. You can probably select the applications with Roadmap and that follow these lines and those that do not follow them
To make complex things simple, they have to be made complicated first. We are still in the early “its complicated” phase
I agree for the most and like the signature 😂 It make me think about linux at the beginning so much distros. (debian, slackware, QNX, gentoo...) But in the end nowadays mostly are based only on debian (even if some other exists). And some distros have made a very good job been very accessible like elementary.io for new users. I think for nostr it will be the same, APPs with common base code and UX adapted to users needs. Today it is more APPs with different code and different NIP support and different UX. #nostr is quite young it will grow and become an adult with more perfect APPs soon, we have to wait for it. But i agree new users could find this too much complex when they come from centralized world. (as linux was "too complex" to use vs windows/mac). If #nostr want new user as soon as possible it have to be very sexy !