Share a recent experience where you failed to achieve success on a key metric and why?

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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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