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almost 8 years ago from Rizwan Javaid, User Experience Designer
Thanks Todd. There are multiple benefits. Keeping the designs real by accounting for longer names instead of the length that makes our designs look great. Also, adding a bit of multiculturalism to the names so we realize that our users can be all over the world.
This is a great feature IMO. At 500px we have a very diverse user base, and usually the names of users tend to be more like "Evgeny Tchebotarev" than "Jeff Shin".
Bingo! The secondary effect is also helping the larger teams realize this point as well when they see the wireframes and designs.
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So good, Rizwan, thanks for sharing this. One thing I noticed right away is that with multicultural names you can get longer (aka design-breaking) ones than you might assume, along with being more realistic this helps flush out those issues earlier.