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You can have a functional site with no design I would disagree with this. Without design of some sort, you don't have an interface at all, and thus no function
by mortenjorck 16y ago
You can have a functional site with no design
I would disagree with this. Without design of some sort, you don't have an interface at all, and thus no functionality; all you have is inaccessible backend code. Regardless of whether there was intent to design or not, if there's a user interface, there's design.
I think that's actually where a lot of design failures happen: They start with the misconception that something was not a design process and thus didn't need design thinking. By the time design is brought into the picture, there are often underlying inflexibilities and assumptions about use patterns that have real effects on user experience, and the design process is working at too high a level to solve them.
Is design is more important than engineering? Neither good design nor good engineering can succeed without the other.
- dasil003 16y agoThe difference is that any engineer can build an interface, even if it sucks, but the reverse is not true.
- TamDenholm 16y ago^^ this was basically my point.
- saturdayplace 16y agoI don't disagree with the point you're trying to make. Obviously you have to have a product. But there is no such thing as 'no design.' The opposite of good design isn't 'no design,' it's bad design. The problem with trying to differentiate a product's functionality from its design, is that from a user's perspective, they're the same thing. >You can have a functional site with no design That's the thing. You may have all kinds of killer functionality, but if your design gets in the way of my ability to use it, you effectively don't _have_ a functional site.