Failing honest
DLB kicks off a week-long discussion about failure with a meta-blog post about glitch and responsibility.
Mistakes are made. Technology fails. Deadlines are blown. Variables are left unaccounted for. In short, shit happens: unavoidably, inevitably. But what do we designers do when it does?
Glitches from a Google cache search in a tab of a crashing instance of Firefox (Via)
This week on BlogLESS, we'll take a look at some instructive instances of failure, and see what we can learn from them. We've talked up the importance of accountability in design ethics here on BlogLESS before, and anticipating failure and accounting for it gracefully is right at the heart of good design.
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