Speed is a core value for 37signals and it’s easily Basecamp’s most important feature. When you have the luxury of that kind of focus, decisions about the product are easier to make because you have something to measure against. Will this feature make Basecamp slower? Is it worth that trade-off? So when we designed the mobile web version of Basecamp we knew that speed would be just as important as
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