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I think you miss the point a bit. If making a design look cheap takes away from basic usability, or reflects badly on the company's core competency (your examp
by danielnicollet 16y ago
I think you miss the point a bit. If making a design look cheap takes away from basic usability, or reflects badly on the company's core competency (your example of the red marker cleaning lady), it's a miss of course. But consider more subtle touches that may seem random to the web site visitor, but make him feel that he's not dealing with a infallible behemoth of a company. I think that definitely can help in establishing some trust when selling something that's differentiated by low price and simplified features, and competing with big brand name alternatives.
- swombat 16y agoI don't think he's missing the point. "Suck" is relative to the user. If your product does exactly what the user and the owner want, it doesn't suck - it rocks. It's an awesome design. Whether it uses Comic Sans and gets snotty designers up in arms is completely irrelevant to its suckage or lack thereof. Conveying the right expectations is a part of good design. If looking cheap is a selling point, a design that looks expensive is a failure. It's the "nice and clean" design which sucks.