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I hope you realize that the main audience of layervault and designer news is designers. Their site (which I've seen many times before) looks fine on my screen.

by colmvp 14y ago

I hope you realize that the main audience of layervault and designer news is designers. Their site (which I've seen many times before) looks fine on my screen. And I would be willing to wager a bet that the majority of their core audience would have decent/pretty good screens. I'm all about usability but I'm also lenient when the audience isn't as wide as what Amazon or eBay have to cater to. I think it's a little unnerving that you'd put 'top notch.' None of those examples are break it for me as a designer and a potential customer. Overall the style and feel of the site is significantly memorable and it's a site that I've come back to time and time again.

threedaymonk 14y ago
> I hope you realize that the main audience of layervault and designer news is designers. That statement disturbs me a bit, because it seems to imply that contrast and readability aren't important to designers, and that designers are grudgingly humouring us normals when they make designs with legible text sizes in readable colour combinations for our ugly utilitarian sites. I don't think that's true, though. I've been lucky enough to work with some very talented designers with the ability to make things that are both elegant and readable. Anything else is just narcissistic posing, after all.