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Day: 6 April 2023

An illustration of people browsing at a huge car boot sale

Why a bad website is like a car boot sale

11/10/202306/04/2023 by Lauren Pope

One of my clients used the best metaphor for bad, organisation-focused websites the other day: a car boot sale. I was so struck by the comparison, that I had to write about it.

Categories Opinion Tags Content strategy, Information architecture

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