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While most in this article is true and has to be considered, in the real world of corporate production it will not work. Is is not user you have to care about.

While most in this article is true and has to be considered, in the real world of corporate production it will not work. Is is not user you have to care about. You have to keep happy your ignorant PM, that is all. Unless you are happy to put significant effort into inobtrusive education of your manager or PM, your efforts to enhance user experience will be most likely doomed.

webartisan 10y ago
Very true.
mercer 10y ago
That's been my experience as well, and it's so demoralizing. I've worked on many projects where we, the developers, took effort to produce a lean, functional, snappy website, on for the PM's to then order us to implement multiple tracking tools, ad systems, and 'widgets' that would turn the site into a bloated abomination and reduced it to a crawl. The 'funny' part is that the sites would sometimes break without anyone noticing, because every developer and PM would have an ad blocker installed that filtered out the 'extras' that caused the breakage...