Changelog

Swimming lessons (aka changelog design)

FridayBuilds Team

January 15, 2024

As we are riding the waves towards leaving Beta, we are focusing on the most critical features first, like learning how to swim (👀 patiently 👇 at /changelog). Secondary tasks like implementing payments and billing can definitely wait. Who cares about scaling to multiple servers or load balancing? Just look at that thing swim and be happy!

But seriously, when I am working on given designs, I always ship results very close to the original Figma design. Like *at least* 14.3% accuracy. So today, 5 minutes after I deployed the new changelog pages, news have traveled far and wide to reach our designer's ears. Need I say more? I spent 2 more hours fixing paddings, line-heights, extending the tailwind config, realigning everything, etc., but mostly watching our logo swim across the screen.

Even though it can be frustrating, it has been a humbling and learning experience every time. These minor (in my eyes) changes I am so reluctant to dig back into and fix, always end up adding up to a very significant difference (for the better) when I compare before and after screenshots.
TL;DR: Trust your designers.