Comments on: the 2.0 aesthetic: a draft with some comments

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:49:46 +0000

“They weren’t picking up on what was, to me, an obvious aesthetic difference between “The Wizard” and, say, the lovely chicago6corners site. What I considered to be obvious and immediate “bad” and “good” weren’t obviously bad and good to everyone.”

I don’t think you should be hesitant to make judgment calls about browsers, websites, etc. And I’m not just saying that because I bet we agree on quite a bit. Much of what you describe as your preferred aesthetic has to do with usability, no? Better usability moves beyond preference into something demonstratively better.

*Gets into 1984 Volvo, turns on This American Life and drives away*

By: Laura Botts

Laura Botts — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24:07 +0000

Apparently, given your examples of ugly sites, yellow does not appeal to our aesthetic!

By: laura

laura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:44:40 +0000

Ha ha. . . oh wait, I do know you. I think you showed me the Vernacular Web before, but it’s still good.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:41:14 +0000

RE: paragraph three. It’s like you know me!

By: laura

laura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:48 +0000

Blame the LSW for the ugly websites. I asked for examples in the Meebo room one day.

By: Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:32:12 +0000

Geez, how did you find those really ugly websites? Hope you weren’t shopping for tools and machinery in Australia…