> It absolutely doesn't live up to the latest trends in UI/UX design I'd have to disagree pretty strongly here. It is- excluding the homepage- a paragon of mod

> It absolutely doesn't live up to the latest trends in UI/UX design I'd have to disagree pretty strongly here. It is- excluding the homepage- a paragon of modern UX design, and I think many other sites have taken a lot of inspiration. Search oriented, minimalist design elements that stay out of the way of the user, key filters to narrow search, saved searches, alerts, etc. It's even almost entirely flat aesthetically! You could do a completely surface level reskin of Craigslist and it would appear, from a UX/UI perspective, to be a totally modern interface. I think people see the older visual aesthetic and assume that it's not in line with modern UX best practices, but it largely is! Again home page is excluded here. I think that's still the way it is for familiarity/nostalgia reasons, because they have made tons of changes to the main search UI but left the home page basically untouched. The trends that it doesn't keep up with are mostly technological rather than UX/UI.