Front end design

I just spent the weekend with the BView team ironing out bugs for the launch of the site. Startups are startups and this is only the 3rd weekend of working on the project so I am reasonably happy to do the time.

As ever, the things that are left to last are front end as:

• everyone has an opinion
• you see something in HTML form, play with it, and you don't like it
• you completely underestimate how long it takes to code the front end
• the front end is always full of regression errors
• Microsoft browsers always screw you somehow

Some stats around one week to launch:

functional bugs: ~30
front end bugs: ~250

My advice to anyone still thinking on the front end:

• keep it simple
• always UAT the front end for the lowest common denominator (of browser/OS not User intelligence)
• keep it simple

You can always over elaborate once you are live!