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Lessons from Failed Projects
Spend enough time in IT and you’ll see plenty of failed dev projects. Although there is a huge amount of wisdom to be gained from a failed project, I have never seen that benefit reaped by an organization. That’s really unfortunate, but it could easily be avoided. I want to begin by talking about how an organization identifies a failed…
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Progressive Degradation
By now you’ve probably heard designers throwing around the terms “progressive enhancement” and “graceful degradation” when discussing their web designs. I’ve come to realize that most designers and even some developers are misusing these terms. They are using them as excuses for designs that never tried to be universally accessible. I’ve begun to call this…
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The Cost of Bad Design
We’ve all seen what we would call bad design on the web, and we usually base this judgement on our personal aesthetic preferences. I have a new definition of bad web design that goes beneath the surface: If your “web design” doesn’t actually work on the web you’ve failed.