Aaron Gerdes: Tag anti-marketing

"MS Frontpage Menu. Select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow"

aarongerdes@gmail.com (Aaron Gerdes) — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:57:00 -0800

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.

"MS Frontpage Menu. Select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow"

aarongerdes@gmail.com (Aaron Gerdes) — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:57:00 -0800

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.