Great concepts can become edge-case nightmares in production
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This is one of those things that the concept is, is really good. And you're like, Oh yeah, that would be great. And then, like, the actual putting in, into into production, becomes this sort of nightmare of edge cases and difficulties.
Episode 194: Freak Off Friday (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:10:01 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Some features sound great in concept, like letting feeds set banner colors that apps must overlay text on. Putting them into production turns into a nightmare of edge cases (contrast calculations and more). Even Apple, with the best designers, struggled with the colored macOS menu bar.