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I think we hit a pretty good local maximum for website usability in the few years when "leftnav column, header, content" layouts all looked and worked basically
by shantly 7y ago
I think we hit a pretty good local maximum for website usability in the few years when "leftnav column, header, content" layouts all looked and worked basically the same and were the standard look for lots of sites. Granted they weren't mobile friendly ("what's mobile?") but at least you could figure out how a site worked pretty fast if they stuck to that.
- smt88 7y agoI liked that era too, and I agree that mobile-unfriendliness is most of what killed it. I do also think that the incentive of a designer is not to create those kinds of designs. Familiarity is often more usable, but if your designs are familiar, why hire you at all? Why not just copy a competitor?