Is this the era of "Success by UX"?

Re:Is this the era of "Success by UX"? by ootachi on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @01:46PM (#3595482)

Nope. It's the era of success by marketing and luck, as it always has been and always will be.

Engineering is, as usual, pretty much irrelevant to success. That includes UX.

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Re:Is this the era of "Success by UX"? by Yhippa on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @02:10PM (#3595579)

This makes me wonder if there are any major products out there that succeed despite terribad UX. In my mind I have a bunch of enterprise-y web apps but none really stand out.

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Re:Is this the era of "Success by UX"? by EvilTrout on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @02:38PM (#3595693)

I'd say Hacker News succeeds despite its UX. You can't collapse threads, many pages miss basic navigation elements, etc.

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Re:Is this the era of "Success by UX"? by ootachi on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @02:42PM (#3595703)

Amazon, eBay, Craigslist. Especially that last one.

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Re:Is this the era of "Success by UX"? by mforsberg on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:19AM (#3597962)

I agree they lack the edge in UX, on the other hand they got the other 2/3 of the puzzle that ender7 talks about in his first comment.

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