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> It has not been my experience that cutting-edge web design > has made huge differences to sales in the sort of markets > I tend to operate in With all d
by rimantas 13y ago
> It has not been my experience that cutting-edge web design
> has made huge differences to sales in the sort of markets
> I tend to operate in
With all due respect, but BCC never had "cutting-edge" web design, it was always (at least in the incarnations I saw) barely adequate design-wise.
http://panic.com http://panic.com or http://tapbots.com http://tapbots.com or http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com is what I'd call well designed. What's interesting they all also look like template design, but they have the polished look BSS is lacking.
Of course, maybe you have something other than BCC in mind, or you did try the design on par with the examples above and it did not convert well, then disregard this comment.
- patio11 13y agoI was thinking less BCC and more the consulting career when I thought that. Not going to point fingers, obviously, but you'd be surprised how little a $X0,000 redesign (from meh to almost-wow) did relative to e.g. changing the H1 on the front page.
- oskarth 13y agoExactly right, but also exactly wrong. patio11 made an understatement to get his point across - that design doesn't matter as much as people think. That you, respectfully, call Bingo Card Creator not even close to cutting edge just makes his argument stronger.
- rimantas 13y ago> patio11 made an understatement to get his point across - > that design doesn't matter as much as people think That may very well be true (and I think it is true in a sense). But I can also argue that without testing with truly polished design you only know that one "not-quite-there-yet" design has no advantage over other of the same kind.
- Kiro 13y agoSorry, but the three designs you posted may have been well designed 10 years ago but now they just look old.
- kleiba 13y agoThen do you have counterexamples for sites you would say have a modern look?
- billmalarky 13y agoWarning: Incoming flat design.
- collyw 13y agoI personally think they look like trendy hipster design. Not much text explaining anything, just a load of icons I am supposed to understand without any context. Seems to appeal to the iPhone generation.