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Utilitarianism has long been a core principle of good design. When I travel around the country, I don't bemoan the lack of variation and design esthetic in all
by vannevar 15y ago
Utilitarianism has long been a core principle of good design. When I travel around the country, I don't bemoan the lack of variation and design esthetic in all the street signs I encounter. Similarly, there is a broad class of utility apps for which Bootstrap is a great standardization influence.
- justjimmy 15y agoBecause you don't expect street signs to be visually pleasing. You expect a certain look from street signs because they all share the same function. But startups come from various fields and solve various problems, provide different services and products. Should we shift our expectations that all startup sites will use templates now?
- nknight 15y agoYour startup is not a special snowflake. Your buttons and menus and checkboxes work just like everybody else's. Your buttons can look just like everyone else's buttons. You know what your users will say? "Oh! It works just like X, I know X, this is easy!".