User Testing vs Understanding Humans

Being a designer is very close to being a human. We are taught the processes to understand users (humans) in a better way and give them what they need for them to not face any problem and extensively give them what they want (provide comfortness through better user experience). Keeping that as the ultimate goal, we completely put ourselves onto their shoes and get their views selflessly. I wonder why I can't do that in real life. Why everything all of a sudden is becoming very self centric when we care about ourselves. 

Easy to understand, hard to enact if we’re becoming part of the system. It can be vice versa too. If you’re good with humans in real life, eventually you create better design for people. You practise that skill day in and out. Satisfying different stakeholders all at once is hard. Pick the target audience, create solution for them, understand the iterations to not stick with one solution for rest of your life. One at a time, don’t try to group your solutions. Not everyone is the same. There is a saying in tamil, “Paravaigal Palavitham ovvondrum Oruvitham :: Birds are of many kinds, each one unique in its own way”. 

Funniest thing is you won’t get a timeline to sensitise about the humans you met everyday. They’re very dynamic, radicle. On top of it, there is a tangent drawn from you while understanding their behaviour towards you. Be as polite as you can, because the way they behave is with respect to you, it's not just them, it's partly you too my friend. 

Veekay