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"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probab
by cwyers 10y ago
"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not."
https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
- draw_down 10y agoAh yes, I do recall reading that. And now they're proudly launching products with shit like this: https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/AWS%20CodeStar-01-CodeStarWorkflow.png https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/AWS%20CodeStar... I get that the graphics aren't the important part, but jeez.
- nailer 10y agoUX is more than graphics. But yes, if AWS had any kind of sense of UX, DigitalOcean wouldn't exist.
- geoka9 10y ago> UX is more than graphics I'd say they are orthogonal. Craigslist's graphics are bad/nonexistent but I like its UX a lot.
- jeffbarr 10y agoWhat's wrong with that graphic?
- draw_down 10y agoDepends on how you look at it!
- newsat13 10y agoI would like to know as well. I agree it's not "sexy" or "wow" but it communicates what it's meant to. This is like any graph my college professors made - they did their job.
- cwyers 10y agoDoes it? What's with the arrow going through the crowd of people there?
- lojack 10y agoThe fonts are all off. Looks as though antialiasing is turned off, and the kerning is all wonky. It's also inconsistent -- look at the spacing between the top of the boxes and the headers.
- jeffbarr 10y agoThe team saw your complaint and supplied an updated graphic, which is now in the post...
- jacquesm 10y agoAmazon is doing ok though.
- lojack 10y ago> Amazon is doing ok though. This is despite their terrible UX, not a result of good UX.