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Microsoft Design

Post Date: May 15, 2008 3:56 p.m.
Ranked website: emersian.com (Ranks #283207 of 3,783,534)

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If you were tasked to come up with 9 designs for 9 different sites that had the same layout and features how would you go about it? What if the purpose of the sites was to get them out as soon as possible so you can being work on them and building up an audience? Would you slave over every detail trying to get it right the first time? We are currently in this situation and if you know the designs we have put out in the past you know that we take great pride in what we do when it comes to the aesthetics of a site. This time however time is of the essence so everything can’t be done perfectly and in fact you could say that we are going for good enough. I call this Microsoft design because when Microsoft releases an early version of a product it never is the best when it comes to design or functionality. It is just enough to get them in the race. Now desktop applications differ from websites which differ from physical products so using this philosophy can not be a universal met...

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