The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over

I've shipped ui's that popped up unstyled alerts and had just enough CSS to work in perfect conditions on desktop chrome, because those uis, as awful as they were, were light years ahead of existing tools and I wasn't given time to do stuff the right way. My client preferred something that just worked today, to something that was a bit easier to interact with but would've taken twice as long to ship.

Sometimes you have to make sacrifices in the name of progress. Depending on how resource-constrained you are, investing in a sleek and nicely-planned ui could be a mistake.

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