{"id":808,"date":"2011-05-15T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:36:13","slug":"on-risk-and-ui-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/808","title":{"rendered":"On Risk and UI Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most designers and businesspeople are reticent to stir the pot when they&#8217;ve got a good thing going. When you&#8217;ve got thousands or even tens of thousands of people visiting your site each day, why take the risk of making a potentially shocking change? It makes little sense, right? <\/p>\n<p>Well, that certainly makes sense if you&#8217;re working for an already established consumer web product (like the Googles and Amazons of the world). But for the up-and-comers like you and me, most users are yet to see the site or tools we&#8217;ve built when you think of the long-term. Keep this in mind when that angel on your shoulder is keeping you firmly planted on the side of safety. Give that devil the nod and try out a little risk. It could be well worth your while. I know I know I know, it&#8217;s trite, but this is totally true:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQwTwMtwJ5k?si=Cyo-CUbJ1UPn-9yJ&amp;start=193\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most designers and businesspeople are reticent to stir the pot when they&#8217;ve got a good thing going. When you&#8217;ve got thousands or even tens of thousands of people visiting your site each day, why take the risk of making a potentially shocking change? It makes little sense, right? Well, that certainly makes sense if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,21,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-free-design-idea","category-professional","category-rambling","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}