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Lessons learned: Think it all the way through
Friday, February 19th, 2010
I learn so much every day. The profession I’ve chosen (or did it choose me?) is in an industry that is always changing. Add that to working with fantastic people that challenge me to think harder every day, and I’m in a constant state of “aha!” moments.
My biggest learning this week: Think it all the way through. Design. Content strategy. New opportunities. Site structure and implementation. Be clear about what’s next.
A few golden nuggets of the week:
- When someone approaches you with a golden opportunity, understand that in most cases, they’re expecting the same in return. One hand washes the other, so to speak. This can work for you or against you – but think it through from both perspectives.
- When you’re designing an interface, it’s ok to break UI rules if it works best for the user – especially when no one else is going to use it.
- If you’re going to try to do something different, to be bold, be sure to think through the entire implementation – not just the homepage. Where do we go from here?
- We all have to make compromises and need to learn what to fight for and what to let go. This is a hard lesson when it comes to design, but we need to remove emotion from the equation and keep it as impersonal as possible.
- Even if you think something looks awesome, if the colors remind someone of a childhood trauma, it’ll never fly. (That’s ok.)
It was a week of big lessons – but I anticipate there being a lot more “hey here’s a cool JQuery technique I tried!” next week as I get rolling on actual design and coding again.
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