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Craigslist is actually a great design. Just imagine if a UX developer had their way with it. It would look like myspace.

• debaserab2 10y ago
  Not a good UX developer(/designer). Craigslist has a great minimalist interface. There's a lot of ways it could go wrong, and it avoids a great majority of them. That said, I don't think a lot of development has gone into actually considering their use cases and developing workflows that prefer them. Obviously, it's still a very useful site regardless, but I would not call it a well designed site.
• mawburn 10y ago
  UX != Design
  • mrits 10y ago
    I find it really laughable that companies think you can separate these things. I realize that is the popular opinion but it what has gotten us into this situation in the first place. We have all these "pretty" sites that are unusable. It's an increasingly common skillset and you might as well get a pragmatic person to handle both.
  • mrits 10y ago
    I find it really laughable that companies think you can separate these things. I realize that is the popular opinion but it what has gotten us into this situation in the first place. We have all these "pretty" sites that are unusable. It's an increasingly common skillset and you might as well get a pragmatic person to handle both.
• JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  Exactly. Craigslist work because it doesn't use huge images, scrolly this, flashy that. It works because it uses links as they were meant to be used. It works because it is terribly easy to navigate. If a "proper designer" got hold of it, they'd ruin it.