This Web App Best Viewed By Someone Else

There have never been more front-end development power tools at our fingertips than there are right now, but all too often, we’re using those tools in ways that hurt our users and, by extension, ourselves. Sometimes this happens unintentionally, but other times it’s by very deliberate choice. In the very worst cases, we try to spin that choice into a self-righteous act, framing callous laziness as some sort of altruism. However it happens, what we too often dismiss as edge cases are real people who may very much want or even legitimately need to use what we create. We shut doors in people’s faces just to convenience ourselves, mocking them as we do, and in the process betray the fundamental principles of the web. It’s time to stop, take a hard look at what we’re doing and how we’re doing it, and find a better, more human way.