How do you go about convincing the stubborn "powers that be" to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to?
Say there was a layout in a previous version of software from years back and the powers that be at your company do not want to change it at all just because it has been that way, but in reality is not even following a best practice or convention, and actually is rather clumsy.
Answer
A very common problem for professionals in our field. I usually try to convince the powers by showing various famous sites how the web convention looks today, in order to get anything done. You turn the discussion in a different direction from "I don't want to change" to "Cool, I want that on my site as well".
I get the best response if I show the other famous webs first, and when the powers are convinced, I show my solution. There's no guarantee for this technique to work all the time, but the odds increase.
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