Designer vs Marketer

I just had a thought about design - a designer understands that one size does not fit all - a marketer works on the assumption that one size can be made to fit all - or at least a sizable population.

Marketing of products and services is influential because money is best made through volume. This is detrimental to the design process of making sure that those products and services are working for people because it is often easier and quicker in the short-term to teach people to work with the limitations and biases of the technology being sold.

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