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You could add eBay, Amazon, Craig's List, Yahoo, etc. I don't really think they are outliers - if you offer a product with real value, lack of design may have a
by rrreese 14y ago
You could add eBay, Amazon, Craig's List, Yahoo, etc. I don't really think they are outliers - if you offer a product with real value, lack of design may have an impact, but the value you provide to customers will vastly outweigh it.
Not that I think design should be ignored, but sadly some of the giants have ignored it and done remarkably well regardless.
- dredmorbius 14y agoYahoo IMO survived based on sheer inertia and likely based on its one-time command of at least a large portion of the online advertising market, and email. Certain site segments were pretty innovative (Yahoo Finance was a great resource for a while). In 1997, Yahoo offered real value (it made sense of the Web). Even in the early 2000s, ditto. The problem with the real value proposition is that if someone succeeds in providing realer value, so to speak, you're sunk. CL is a very interesting exceptional case. I'll note that they've had a designer position open recently.