When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your design was perfect or because your design didn’t matter.
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When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your design was perfect or because your design didn’t matter.
Jason Lander
on 13 Dec 09So true. At our company, often times we judge the success of the release based on the amount of silence we get. Often times new features upset customers for no other reason than ‘we moved their cheese.’ When we release a new feature we’re often times looking for some form of thanks or praise. But more often than not, the silence ends up being the best compliment we can get. We take it to mean that the new changes are working seamlessly and everyone is happy.
George
on 13 Dec 09It’s a bit embarrassing having this post up while your upgrade overruns.
George
on 13 Dec 09I swear I didn’t write the above comment.
Ryan Naylor
on 14 Dec 09Why wouldn’t the design matter?
Joseph
on 14 Dec 09Cute… Now can I please log into my basecamp account before Monday morning? Fix it? Please?! panic
Berserk
on 14 Dec 09@Ryan,
Probable response: “Because the thing you designed don’t matter”.
lim
on 14 Dec 09I can’t find anywhere to report this layout fail. Your logo is overlapping the Browse button in Campfire and I can’t upload anything.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
http://skitch.com/sklim/nmt5k/campfire-otw-coders
JF
on 14 Dec 09lim: It looks like you’ve blown up your font 3 or 4x the standard size. At a certain point it’s going to move objects around which appears to be why the logo is in the way.
lim
on 14 Dec 09o.O I would be so fired if my layouts broke at 16px font! Also known as… default size.
I’ve overridden it in my Stylish.
Ryan Naylor
on 14 Dec 09Thanks Berserk.
Ryan Dawidjan
on 14 Dec 09Great point, really speaks to how perfect success can be an illusion.
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