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is the process of building relationships between an end client and a business to balance their needs
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Backward compatibility

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Regarding software development, backward compatibility is for making a new version with more or less the same technologies to provide correct work with the previous one. In UX, backward compatibility decreases the learning difficulties of interface updates.

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