Badly designed yet highly successful

February 08th, 2006 * Comments(0)

Andy Rutledge offers some interesting points on highly successful yet poorly designed websites (like Google, Craigslist etc.). Why do they work so well in spite of appearance?

Poorly designed “simple” is far easier to swallow than poorly designed “complex.” It works okay in spite of the bad layout and un-design.

Read more in UX Mag – Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich?.

To be honest, I think that whenever a website is as successful as the examples he points out, you might as well admitt that they got it right. Design and content wise.
Are those websites perfect from my or his point of view? Most definitely not. But apparently not that many people care and that’s what it’s all about. They’re not out there to please a bunch of designers, they have to please everyone and as they say… beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

And on a related note… what should Google & eBay look like according to him? He did that as well…

 Google Redux: a design exercise

 eBay Redux: a design exercise

Superbowl ads

February 06th, 2006 * Comments(0)

 on iFilm

Budweiser superfan rocks

A newspaper without photographers or journalists

February 05th, 2006 * Comments(0)

Apparently  Manchester Evening News is letting go of  35 editorial jobs.

Among those are 27 journalists (all 6 staff photographers included) which means the paper will rely completely on photo agencies and exploited casual photographers to supply the images. Since they also got rid of a bunch of journalists one can pretty much expect a flood of low quality PR texts that will fill the void.

“We have already had a number of volunteers coming forward since the announcement yesterday.”

And I bet all of them used to be employed by the paper. They simply got rid of them to avoid paying full time wages.

Expect this to become common practice in the next few years…

 via Dennis Dunleavy

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