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I should have stopped reading at "my eyes puked from the motion sickness.." Seriously? What a horrible way to tear apart someone else's hard work. An actual c

I should have stopped reading at "my eyes puked from the motion sickness.." Seriously? What a horrible way to tear apart someone else's hard work. An actual case study of Stack Overflow would be that something designed by developers could be a huge objective success. Also, his proposed improvement "hasn’t included all the functional elements yet" Anyone can make almost any interactive design appear to be superficially better as a static screenshot by taking things away. As far as making something that actually works and does the right thing, that takes more than Photoshop and arrogance. It's sad to see this guy getting attention.

cemregr 16y ago
If you look at the (in)famous design criticism articles of the past year, you can see that discourtesy has become a pattern. Because these got so much attention, others started to think it's "okay" to do design critic in a similarly childish and discourteous manner. It's interesting to see the lengths people go for attention. Tyler Thompson on Delta's boarding pass: "It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random..." Andrew Wilkinson on Zappos: "I checked out your new website and wanted to stab my eyes out with a sharp object." Dustin Curtis on American Airlines: "Fire your entire design team, if you have one." (His original post was harsher but he has edited it since and I don't have access to the original.)
- MartinCron 16y ago
  Those kinds of reviews are fun to write and fun to read, but I think they do a dis-service to the entire community. This sort of design critique discourtesy isn't just from the last year, I was writing about it two years ago: http://martincron.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/respect-for-people-and-mean-spirited-trash-talk/ http://martincron.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/respect-for-peopl...

cemregr 16y ago

If you look at the (in)famous design criticism articles of the past year, you can see that discourtesy has become a pattern. Because these got so much attention, others started to think it's "okay" to do design critic in a similarly childish and discourteous manner. It's interesting to see the lengths people go for attention. Tyler Thompson on Delta's boarding pass: "It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random..." Andrew Wilkinson on Zappos: "I checked out your new website and wanted to stab my eyes out with a sharp object." Dustin Curtis on American Airlines: "Fire your entire design team, if you have one." (His original post was harsher but he has edited it since and I don't have access to the original.)

MartinCron 16y ago
Those kinds of reviews are fun to write and fun to read, but I think they do a dis-service to the entire community. This sort of design critique discourtesy isn't just from the last year, I was writing about it two years ago: http://martincron.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/respect-for-people-and-mean-spirited-trash-talk/ http://martincron.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/respect-for-peopl...