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A tangential: after seeing this and almost.at, I conclude that aesthetically pleasing websites really matter. This was apparent when I was in high school, even
by dbul 17y ago
A tangential: after seeing this and almost.at, I conclude that aesthetically pleasing websites really matter.
This was apparent when I was in high school, even: the kid that did best in our CS class had the best eye candy (and he went to Stanford and now works at Facebook I think).
So I'm going to bookmark all of these eye-catching websites on HN and study them. Not only should my startup be something that people want, but also something that makes them enjoy simply looking at it. Good-looking websites draw attention. Useful websites retain and help build a user base.
- callmeed 17y agoI've been feeling the exact same way lately ... The designers behind this: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/ http://thingsthatarebrown.com/ I've also been going back to these guys a lot lately: http://metalabdesign.com/ http://metalabdesign.com/ (Some of their work has been on HN lately)
- jsonscripter 17y agohttp://metalabdesign.com/* http://metalabdesign.com/* "Hyper usable" made me smile :)
- buugs 17y agoIt's not just eye catchy most of the websites that are useful and retain a large user base are simple... in that they are very minimal and nice looking, look at facebook compared to myspace or google compared to the new bing there are obvious winners on aesthetics. Even things like gmail, twitter and webapps like basecamp can be visually pleasing but keep that needed minimal look.