Jason Fried of 37signals: «Do not focus on the details!"

How often do you find yourself hovering over any microscopic element of the code or design, which you have already spent almost a day. How often do you realize that the work done for the day, the work is not really promoted the project to the point of completion? This happens when you switch on the details too early. Implement living inside a perfectionist, you still have time, and do not need to dive into the details at an early stage.

We often hear about the importance of attention to detail in every case. Since this is difficult to argue, but whether or not the constant attention to detail goes to benefit the cause and the task as a whole?

Jason Fried, Co-founder of 37signals, proposes to rethink the need for attention to detail, depending on the stage of the project.

Beauty, completeness and accuracy - not the only things that can be achieved by paying attention to detail. Other permanent fixation of such satellites are stagnation and delay differences. All this may simply kill the whole mood and affect your chances of success.

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How often do you find yourself hovering over any microscopic element of the code or design, which you have already spent almost a day. How often do you realize that the work done for the day, the work is not really promoted the project to the point of completion? This happens when you switch on the details too early. Implement living inside a perfectionist, you still have time, and do not need to dive into the details at an early stage.

Not worth a whole day to think about the size of the font in the title. No need to spend hours on the choice of the perfect shade of green to the created layout. It is not necessary "to the millimeter" vymeryat location of the buttons on the website prototyping. Simply place all the elements on the page. Test them. Make sure that everything is working. You can then play a perfectionist.

In the course of the project you yourself understand what things require more attention. You do realize that something is missing. In the process of creation and subsequent testing you do find things that need improvement. And then the time comes to licking of these elements, not before.