Tiering the user experience

At this point, let's assume shareholders are educated and on board. Let's also assume you have a clear set of browsers that you would like to add enhanced experiences for. We can now set about tiering the experience. I like to keep things simple, so where possible I opt to define a simple 'base' tier and a more 'enhanced' tier.

The base experience being the minimal viable version of the site and the enhanced version being the most fully-featured and aesthetically pleasing version. You might need to accommodate more granularity in your tiers, for example, forking the experience in relation to browser features; support for Flexbox or support for translate3d for example. Regardless of how the tiers are defined, ensure you ...

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