Wired/Craigslist article
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- voiceof
I was reading the craigslist redesign article and got to the comments section and was just blown away by the reaction from most of the commenters. There was a lot of bitching about flash, banner ads, things flying about and arrogant designers; which weren't in any of the redesigns (well most). Other than the "tongue in cheek" and "experimental" designs ( which I wish they would have kept out), The NY Times and Simple Scott solutions were well thought out and much improved in my opinion.
Why is that many people will so often equate clean well-thought out design with elitist attitudes and bloated egos. What is about a polished aesthetic that seems to alienate so many people?
Why is design often seen as meddling instead of enhancing? I expect everyone I work with to do the best job possible, why should it be any different with designers? I understand people can argue against unneeded visual clutter, too much white space, colors etc... but when it comes to layout and UI functionality why the resistance?
anyway if you've made it this far below is the link to the article.
- lukus_W0
The polished aesthetic generally leads to lack of trust, imo. Turds often require polishing -> so do messages we don't want to hear, and products we don't want to buy.
Much of the way the media communicates lacks honesty; so when a message comes through without the usual trapping of marketing-bullshite, it's something to savour.
- Andrew_D0
- I think this was done tongue planted firmly in cheekTheBlueOne
- Hoping so, but still, it doesn't get away from being awful that easy.Andrew_D
- navigation is worse then the original. self indulgent crapTheDrago
- voiceof0
@lukus_W
I can understand that (and I know I do it too). I guess I'm wondering why design has to be so entwined with marketing BS and can't just be seen as a craft. Why can't it just be someone doing their job the best that they can?- http://www.qbn.com/t…jimbojones
- Because designers get most money from marketers, who pay them to help propagate LIES! :)lukus_W
- TheBlueOne0
I liked "the public can be a motherfucker" line myself.
- fiesta0
Remember when Delicious was good?
it was exactly this sort of thinking that fucked it up- delicious is still great b/c you have enough plugins to never really need the site.applepirate
- I like delicious nowvoiceof
- lukus_W0
Separating designers from marketing bullshit, would be similar to trying to separate advertisers from Satan's nipple. It just can't happen.