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Not sure I agree 100% with the list (banks ? eBay ?) but much of the complexity in sites for larger companies is due to design-by-committee - a number of stakeh
by zeemonkee 16y ago
Not sure I agree 100% with the list (banks ? eBay ?) but much of the complexity in sites for larger companies is due to design-by-committee - a number of stakeholders/clients/managers have to have their bikeshedding input and the end result is a mess.
Small companies/startups aim for simplicity because they have fewer stakeholders to please and they are concentrating on a single idea and brand. In the case of Google, that simplicity has become a brand in of itself.
- gsivil 16y agoI guess simplicity is something relative. And your simple may by my complex. I do not do much with online banking but just some money transfers are one password and 2-3 clicks away. I agree google (and craigslist) are also using the simplicity of the interface to emphasize the utility of the website. The more I think I find that almost all the websites that are successful ( and my preference is only one data point) tend to have a simple interface. For example youtube has only one search box , minimized options, with two or three clicks you can access the content