Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by jjeaff on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:47PM
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Is this how you feel about your home or office? Completely spartan, only the necessary objects and nothing else? I suppose some people do only want a purely spartan, necessities only environment. But I like a little pizazz, a little splash of color here and there a little comfort. And I feel the same way about the software I use. As long as the decoration doesn't get in the way of course.
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I'm much more skeptical of decorations on web sites because of how hard it is to exert control over them compared to how hard it is to exert control over the decorations in my home or office.
If I don't like my houseplant, I can move it or get rid of it.
If I don't like your little splash of color or little pizazz, maybe even find it distracting and in the way, what can I do?
In both cases, the userbase's opinions matter. My home has a very small userbase I can pretty easily poll quite thoroughly. Is the same true of a public website?