This is an ongoing debate in my head. Obviously, there are examples of both cases (e.g. Facebook is an "ok" design but Stripe is beautiful). Then there are ot

This is an ongoing debate in my head. Obviously, there are examples of both cases (e.g. Facebook is an "ok" design but Stripe is beautiful). Then there are other things. For example, this CB Insights post (https://www.cbinsights.com/research/personal-finance-apps-strategies/#design https://www.cbinsights.com/research/personal-finance-apps-st...) mentions a study where "Stanford psychologist BJ Fogg gauged people’s reactions to various websites and asked them what factors played the biggest part in their assessments, design was unanimously the most commonly-cited reason for trusting or not trusting a particular site." So I wouldn't say design has nothing to do with the success of a product, but it is true that it's not enough to make a product good.