{"id":237,"date":"2011-02-24T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:59:01","slug":"more-on-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2011\/02\/more-on-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"More on criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.semibad.com\/blog\/no_ones_a_critic\">Nice response<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/semiBad\">Andi Farr<\/a> to my <a href=\"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2011\/02\/how-do-we-criticise-web-work\/\">post about criticism<\/a>. He raises a good point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once the work is launched, it&#8217;s another story \u00e2\u20ac\u201c even if they were to agree with incoming criticism, the prospect of going back to a client to say &#8220;we did this wrong&#8221; is an uninviting one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree that criticism is rarely going to be about salvaging something.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] if an agency is making shoddy work, then the likelihood is that they&#8217;ll either realise and get their act together, or lose all their clients \/ talent and eventually go out of business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This I&#8217;m not so sure about. It&#8217;s a sad fact maybe, but great work does not always equal success. Mediocre work sells if it&#8217;s marketed well.<\/p>\n<p>My anxiety about this stems from the fact that what constitutes &#8220;great work&#8221; is not obvious. It&#8217;s very easy to be distracted by flashy graphic design, and it&#8217;s harder to communicate things like usability, accessibility, optimisations for speed and file size, and security. It&#8217;s our responsibility to educate clients about these things, but also sometimes to educate each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice response from Andi Farr to my post about criticism. He raises a good point: Once the work is launched, it&#8217;s another story \u00e2\u20ac\u201c even if they were to agree with incoming criticism, the prospect of going back to a client to say &#8220;we did this wrong&#8221; is an uninviting one. I agree that criticism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}