CraigsList and Facebook are neither ugly nor messy. They're functional given their needs. Maybe the thesis of this article should be: Don't let your designer

CraigsList and Facebook are neither ugly nor messy. They're functional given their needs. Maybe the thesis of this article should be: Don't let your designer go berserk and just make whatever white-space-heavy-drop-shadow-gigantic-photographs-four-words-per-screen mess they feel like if that's not actually what your users need to find satisfaction in your site or app. That's the single right way to do things.