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Braid levels montage
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Western Spaghetti by PES
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At eBay, they learned the hard way that their users don’t like dramatic change. One day, the folks at eBay decided they no longer liked the bright yellow background on many of their pages, so they just changed it to a white background. Instantly, they started receiving emails from customers, bemoaning the change. So many people complained, that they felt forced to change it back.

Not content with the initial defeat, the team tried a different strategy. Over the period of several months, they modified the background color one shade of yellow at a time, until, finally, all the yellow was gone, leaving only white. Predictably, hardly a single user noticed this time.

The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch
eBay.com: Satisfying their Users with Gradual Evolution
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Checking out schematic.com on Vimeo
Jun
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Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (version one, 1969)
Jun
25th
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One of the fundamental principles of SproutCore is “embrace JavaScript
SproutCore - I think I’m in love!
Jun
24th
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"I propose the bollocks scheme"

  • bollocks - code that wants deleting
  • bollocks? - code that might want deleting
  • bollocks! - code that looks like it wants deleting, but doesn’t
  • bollocks!? - code that can’t be understood, but probably doesn’t want deleting

Bollocks from Sean Thompson

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