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I use a very plain style for my personal Web site as its aimed at teachers (educational institutions don't always have recent computers) and students (they tend

I use a very plain style for my personal Web site as its aimed at teachers (educational institutions don't always have recent computers) and students (they tend to use phones for Web browsing). I suspect there is considerable peer pressure on any small company or computer professional to have a Web site that looks 'designed'. Shame really.

geoka9 15y ago
And the problem with those designs is that they constantly evolve to become worse UX-wise. The web is very much gullible to fashion change and, unlike fashion in clothes, there seems to be no safe middle ground (like denim, for example) that would always be relatively the same and never out of fashion. And the low-contrast-looks-beautiful fashion is just plain crazy. Whenever I happen to visit a pretentiously designed web site, I cringe in anticipation of hard to read text and my browser getting jerky when trying to scroll.