The 3px paradigm shift

The struggle between “MVP” and “Polished MVP” has been almost as old as Mac vs PC and Apples vs Oranges Samsungs. We, designers have the responsibility to obsess over the smallest details, because otherwise everything could’ve been done using templates.

If a button is those 3px off, or 3pts, which will make it 9 WHOLE PIXELS on something like an iPhone 6+, most users won’t consciously notice that. But they will feel something is not quite right and that thought will lower their comfort from using the digital product.

It’s also true, that people are sadly used to using badly designed products?—?most of them are in that “sloppy design execution” department and it’s not even frowned upon that much anymore. It should be.

Most regular products, especially startups are maybe even expected to be slightly half-baked in the design, as of course every “MVP story” explains. Sure?—?the product has to work. It has to solve a problem.

But should it really look like an unfinished product, just because it’s proving it’s right for existing right now?

You can read the entire article at:

https://medium.com/@michalmalewicz/the-3px-paradigm-shift-96f7c67ccae3#.xze1leuvj