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What's user-hostile about Craigslist's design? Do you think Windows 95 UX is user-hostile too? Many people would say that having a strict adherence to universal
by derefr 4y ago
What's user-hostile about Craigslist's design? Do you think Windows 95 UX is user-hostile too? Many people would say that having a strict adherence to universal UI conventions such that "your buttons always look like buttons" (Windows 95) or "your links always look like links, and your form inputs always look like form inputs" (Craigslist) is more usable.
(Also, if you think Craigslist "has no incentive to change", you probably haven't used it in a while. It was rebuilt — 5+ years ago now! — as a modern HTML5 website that only vaguely resembles its previous HTML4 minimal-CSS no-JS approach. But even that old design was extremely usable.)