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Posted by xyZed on 02/16/06 17:37
There is circumstantial evidence that on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:35:45
GMT, Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote
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> > See you make the assumption that viewers don't want to be awed too.
>
> Yes, I make that assumption. I don't think it's unreasonable that the
> view of a site is different from designer to user... in most cases a web
> site is =about= a thing, and not the thing itself. But for the web
> designer, it =is= the thing itself.
>
I think the truth is somewhere in between. I agree that a substantial
percentage of web designers over design and are motivated mostly by
showing(off) what they can do. They need to produce something that
looks designed, even (and often) at the expense of content and
usability.
At the same time, a site that looks amateurish can lose credibility
with a substantial amount of visitors. Personally, I aim for something
that looks well designed in the sense of nicely laid out and easy to
use, but with content being the revered king. I think users looking
for "information" just want to see nicely laid out, easily accessible
content and anything else just gets in the way.
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