"MS Frontpage Menu. Select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow" 1
It had to be said. And Greg Storey (Airbag Industries) said it well:
I’m tired of this nonsense that suggests a “non-designed” site will be more successful because people are sensitive to using applications that aren’t under the thumb of the man. Or maybe I missed the part of human evolution where people are extremely brand and design conscious in meat-space but when it comes to the Matrix that’s all out the window and suddenly the peeps who drive Scions, wear A&F, and drink Red Bull transform into underground anti-establishment lemmings who flock to only those sites that look like they were designed by color-blind C++ programmers.
Read the whole thing here.
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However, there is a lot to be said for sites which cunningly pretend to be non-designed, like google’s homepage for example.
Probably the people who wrote the original article didn’t language out their thoughts properly.