Behavioral
Share a recent experience where you failed to achieve success on a key metric and why?
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Anonymous
8 months ago
One time I was creating a calendar application to determine the availability between several friends. At the time I lacked proficiency of front end technologies and it was approaching the desired deadline. So I had to balance learning front end frameworks and implementation. However, I made a big error and didn't consider mobile compatibility. Due to this oversight, I created an application in which other mobile users had no application to look at and interact with. Thus, when the application was shared with friends, there was no working application, it was a failure. It was completely unreadable. From this situation, I had to apoligize to my friends for such a mistake. I proceeded to make html/css corrections to fit the applicatoin to a variety of mobile screens sizes. This experience taught me the importance of considering all user interfaces during the design phase, and I now make it a point to include mobile compatibility in my initial design plans.
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