Stop waiting for things to be perfect
Pet peeve: Don’t wait for something to achieve perfection.
Specifically when it comes to web design, your design/app/page/doodad is not ever going to be perfect. Don’t wait to launch something, thinking, “Maybe if we get all the little details right, we’ll be a success from the beginning.” Or even, “We have to have everything perfect before we launch, as a matter of principle.”
Your project is never going to be perfect, and it never should be perfect. Bugs are inevitably going to be found; designs are inevitably are going to be tweaked; typos found and content changed. You know that there is going to be more work on your project after the alpha launch, so why not launch NOW with what you have and start the feedback rolling in?
Hi Tracy,
just found your site.
Your blog post rang a bell for me, realising how important it can be to just release a project when the basic functionality and design are in place. < — over-simplified for the sake of brevity
I've had ideas/projects that never came to fruition, because of thinking them to death and trying to squash every conceivable bug. In a recent project I developed the site transparently for the customer and they gave valuable suggestions and spotted a few bugs as well.
Cheers,
- Thorsten
Thorsten says:
Hey Thorsten, thanks for your comment! Great idea on developing for a customer transparently; that can have some problems with -too- much client feedback, but it seems like you found a good balance.
Tracy Osborn says: