You become what you practice
It’s easy to get caught prototyping with inline styles, a few extra presentational tags, and inklings of onclick on every couple of elements to get your behavior just right.
You become what you practice
It’s even easier to just get the job done and rush things together. Slap on that high pass filter, drop the ’star’ html, and throw in a few <br /> tags while you’re at it (just enough where it’s not too noticeable).
You become what you practice
You’ve justified that it’s only one table
to hold together those three columns. It’s much better than the
old
layout afterall, right? Nobody is going to notice anyway.
You become what you practice
There’s a release date afterall. We gotta drop this project off to QA. We don’t have time. Just release it because it’s good enough.
We’ve done this before…and we’ll do it again…you become what you practice
Todays contest and book information
Whomever answers todays question the best will win a copy of Web ReDesign: Workflow that works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler.
What is the worst
re-design
a major website has undertaken, and why was it the worst?
Please remember to put your answers encapsulated within a <blockquote> element, and the regular discussion as normal.





December 16th, 2005 at 4:33 am
December 16th, 2005 at 8:53 am
Don’t take this personally (besides, I don’t think it’s your fault)…
I quit using My Yahoo! since not long after this change took place. :(
Yahoo mail is still my favorite webmail app; real mail goes to yahoo, online signups goes to gmail (although, I haven’t tried the Yahoo! beta mail yet…and, to be honest, from screenshots, I’m not overly anxious to give it a go, either).
December 16th, 2005 at 9:46 am
December 16th, 2005 at 10:36 am
December 16th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Charlie and Elliot:
“a travesty, a tragedy, and an embarrassment” seems a bit melodramatic.
Jon:
I believe eBay looks bad on purpose, because many of their customers wouldn’t want the slick-looking equivalent of a fancy boutique; they want an online flea market: chaotic and quirky.
December 16th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Oh…I see somebody posted that before me. I didn’t see that before..
December 21st, 2005 at 12:17 am
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December 21st, 2005 at 2:27 am
I was trying to come up with something clever, but whoever said Disney should get this one. That was hideous.
-Derek