10 Principles for effective Front-end Development
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Ten concrete principles: favor the simplest option and reduce moving parts, quantify cost versus value, pick pragmatic over perfect, and think at the product level. Examples: a month-long spinner for old Android/BlackBerry ships to 100% of users, a two-week release delay over a nav color, and a UI decision that later saves hundreds of thousands. Do not design systems around outliers, don’t trust anecdotes, don’t build unasked-for features, and expect and accommodate change.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Simplest
- 3:45Remove
- 4:45Understand
- 6:00Care less about yourself
- 7:25Get things alive
- 8:25Think product level
- 9:30Design systems around edge cases
- 10:40Dont make decisions based on anecdotal evidence
- 11:40Dont build it until youve been asked
- 13:05Expect and accommodate change
- 13:30Reverse decisions
- 14:10Recap
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