Chapter 1. Designing Experiences for People
“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
—TIM BERNERS LEE
The one constant on the Web is change. There’s always a new design fad; a new darling language, framework, or tool; a shiny new device to view it on; or new ideas of what it means to be “on the Web.”
It’s exceptionally difficult to wrap your head around an industry that is constantly in flux. It makes my head hurt, and if you’ve been working on the web for a while, I suspect you might feel the same.
Having worked on ...
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