Tag: Progressive Enhancement

Adding a ‘show password’ option to GOV.UK Accounts seemed like a straightforward task, but the more we looked into it the more complicated and interesting it became. This is how we did it and some of the challenges we faced.

More fodder for my firm belief that the closer you look at anything, the more interesting it becomes.

While ever you build under the assumption that things will always work smoothly, you’re leaving yourself completely ill-equipped to handle the scenario that they don’t.

I really like the format (and subject!) of Jeremy’s new workshop. Super hands-on, no slides, and different every time as the attendees go in different directions.

As usual, Ethan makes a lot of sense in this post about how the way we build is impacted by the environment in which we build:

In our little industry, we often work on decent hardware, on reliable networks. But according to Pew Research, thirty percent of Americans don’t have broadband at home. One in ten American adults are smartphone-only internet users, while 13% of American adults don’t use the internet at all.

Meanwhile, we make mobile-friendly websites with widescreen devices, using broadband to design experiences for slow, unstable networks. In a lot of ways, we’re outliers among the people we’re designing for.