Realized by Jason F. on December 12 2009:
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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11 comments so far
Jason Lander 13 Dec 09
So 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 13 Dec 09
It’s a bit embarrassing having this post up while your upgrade overruns.
George 13 Dec 09
I swear I didn’t write the above comment.
Ryan Naylor 14 Dec 09
Why wouldn’t the design matter?
Joseph 14 Dec 09
Cute… Now can I please log into my basecamp account before Monday morning? Fix it? Please?! panic
Berserk 14 Dec 09
@Ryan,
Probable response: “Because the thing you designed don’t matter”.
lim 14 Dec 09
I 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 14 Dec 09
lim: 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 14 Dec 09
o.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 14 Dec 09
Thanks Berserk.
Ryan Dawidjan 14 Dec 09
Great point, really speaks to how perfect success can be an illusion.
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