Comments on: This is amazing..

By: Marek Sienkiewicz

Marek Sienkiewicz — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:49:46 +0000

Hmm, doesn’t really do anything for me. But then again if it brings in the money who am I to be critical. I worked for Channel 7 Media London and we had three designers and only one developer, that was me, a junior at that. Problem there was that the big money circa £60,000 was for .net applications,Component Management Systems and E-commerce Sites which doesn’t really call for great designers.

By: GurlyStar

GurlyStar — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:00:26 +0000

for the record i love my myspace page, thanks 2u brett, i totally see a difference after you made it pretty, than to what i had..LOL

but i just wanted to say I see what you mean…i dont ’see’ what you see when you we look at a website. but over the years i have seen what you have done and b4 n after sites, especially with my dads sites and i now see the difference. and as a user of the internet i care what a site looks like (to an extent), well unless its Victoriasecrets.com or Juicy.com then i could care less what it looks like long as i can find the shopping cart!!!
but i will say i would have never really cared about a site design if i didnt know you and you pointed things out to me that look funky…maybe thats bc i didnt go 2 skool 4 that or maybe that is just ME!!

By: Kevin Ridgway

Kevin Ridgway — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:33:17 +0000

Unfortunately as web designer/developers ourselves, we may be in the minority. I can see how someone looking at that site would view it as “ok” (if only, barely). I in fact boycotted myspace in the very beginning for this fact alone, that myspace was a disgrace to those who hold the web at a high standard. I would explain this to friends when they asked what my myspace page was, and I would just get back blank stares. I shudder to think that our generation may lose their sense of “taste” because a horribly designed website is popular among their friends.

I think there will always be a place for people with real “taste”, as it’s sometimes called. I think people will always pay for that. However, it happens all too often that someone thinks they are paying someone who has good “taste”, and in not having good “taste” themselves, are unable to identify that their shit blows. And that the person they’ve hired to have good “taste” for them, actually blows as well. Case in point (http://danfia.com/). WTF?

I recommend you read Paul Graham’s “Taste” essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html In it he says “Saying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disputes. The trouble is, it’s not true. You feel this when you start to design things.”

So true.

I’m glad you wrote this post, I love any discussion around this topic.