CraigsList and Hacker News are incredibly ugly, even though they’re two of the best websites in the world. There’s a lesson in there.pic.twitter.com/3p9d6J5wH9
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Simple is not the same as ugly. Indeed, it's often the opposite of ugly.
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Simple is the most beautiful thing you have seen ever Complex is the ugliest thing you had seen
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Yeah just repeat what he said with different wording
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I think David is saying they prioritized what mattered most for their product/audience which was not how the sites look. Didn’t waste time, effort, and dollars, or wait to ship until it looked good
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I don't know about Craigslist, but I spent a lot of time e.g. figuring out exactly how many pixels apart to space things, picking a gray for the boilerplate that was dark enough to be legible and yet didn't compete too much with the article titles, etc.
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Wanted to point this out. Those pages are anything but ugly. “Stripped down” is a better term.
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I note tech centric people often have a preference for simple websites. Less bells and whistles, more basic. I wouldn’t call hackernews ugly though.
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They are simple, well designed and get the job done very well. I still think they are ugly and it matters (but less than the others)
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Somethings are good the simple way!!
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“True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornamentation. It’s about bringing order to complexity.” — Sir John Ive
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