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Honestly, it feels a bit overplayed. Some great examples: Steam. Epic's UI looks pretty, but Steam is more functional. Amazon. A cluttered and messy UX (don'
by CharlieDigital 4y ago
Honestly, it feels a bit overplayed.
Some great examples:
Steam. Epic's UI looks pretty, but Steam is more functional.
Amazon. A cluttered and messy UX (don't even peek at their APIs and backend). Yet a dominant e-commerce platform.
Workday. Yuck.
Toyota. Mazda builds prettier cars, but Toyota dominates Mazda.
eBay. Craigslist. HN. Reddit.
Design is important, but utility is where value is created.
- baxtr 4y agoThanks for your examples. Made me think. I wonder if the audience is the key angle for looking at this. For example: - HN is beautiful and elegant to my eyes. So simple. So clean. Adding some counter-examples: - Most luxury brands' cars are beautiful for people who crave elegant things - Airbnb looks amazing to people who care about great interiors I don’t know about your other example except for amazon, which is definitely ugly as f. But then again, it’s “just” a retailer for standard stuff, and I know a lot of brands with nice-looking things that don’t want to be listed there. Also, on their purely digital product, I dig their competitors much more, e.g. Netflix over Prime.