Ask HN: How important is design?

Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by zachlatta on Sunday March 31, 2013 @02:24PM (#5469588)

Craigslist is the only exception I know of.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by LarryMade2 on Sunday March 31, 2013 @05:25PM (#5470242)

... and hacker news apparently :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by askovi on Sunday March 31, 2013 @02:40PM (#5469650)

how about reddit?

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by Choronzon on Sunday March 31, 2013 @04:41PM (#5470116)

You need to distinguish design as an aesthetic from functional design.From a functional point of view reddit is a well designed site.In an ideal world of course they would be congruent but which is more important to get right first depends on what field you are in and who your customers are.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by kurtko on Sunday March 31, 2013 @03:46PM (#5469936)

Don't confuse simplicity with poor design. Or, to rephrase that as a question: what aspect(s) of Reddit do you feel are poorly designed?

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by logn on Sunday March 31, 2013 @08:34PM (#5470817)

How is Reddit simple? By my count they have 40+ navigational buttons on the main pages and each story has 6 buttons (in one form or another) [1]. Reddit absolutely overwhelms me with places to click and gives me no sense of it being nicely organized (as opposed to Craigslist which I think feels very orderly). Amazon feels a lot like reddit to me, but I mostly only need to use Amazon's search bar, so it's ok.

1. http://imgur.com/wVO2JUI

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Re:Ask HN: How important is design? by rauar on Monday April 01, 2013 @07:54AM (#5472496)

Reddit is certainly not a design with simplicity in mind. The sheer amount of links and navigation in general is completely overwhelming. I'd say it's rather a poor design.

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