[thelist] Interesting Sites

Steven Streight steven.streight at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 10:34:45 CST 2006


I don't want to be too hard on lovely and innovative design. As art, a site
may be terrific. But as a usable tool to generate sales or client
acquisition, a pretty and exciting site may fail miserably. But ugly and
conventional is the other extreme.

:^)

On 11/28/06, Steven Streight <steven.streight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The first site, Verdure Thought, is a trainwreck from a usability angle,
> more specifically, the light green type on dark green background is not
> easily readable nor quickly scan-able for relevant information.
>
> On 11/28/06, M. Seyon <evolt07 at delime.com> wrote:
> >
> > Message from Hershel Robinson (11/28/2006 04:58 PM)
> >
> > >Someone sent me this today:
> > >
> > >The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you've Forgotten, part 3:
> > >
> > >http://philrenaud.com/241
> >
> > Interesting indeed.
> >
> > Design, like art, can be such a subjective thing though. But yet design
> > is
> > not art, not boundary-less art, at any rate. These sites might look
> > lovely
> > to some, and hence be wonderful as "pieces of art" but when all the
> > graphics slow my poor hunk of a computer to a crawl, I wouldn't say
> > they're
> > particularly well designed.
> >
> > I prefer a more minimalist look myself.
> >
> > Good post Hershel. Thanks!
> >
> > regards.
> > -marc
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