The designer may work tirelessly to create an elegant, highly-crafted auction site, but that isn’t sufficient for success when the incumbent you are competing against has strong network effects in their favor. In addition to having a great product, you need a distribution strategy that can solve your “chicken and egg” or “cold start” problem.
Good design is crucial, but it’s only one of many parts that make a product successful.
True words from Joel Hladecek about the whole “Skeuomorphic VS Flat Design” Debate.
Essentially, every user interface on Earth is ornamentally referencing and representing other unrelated materials, interfaces and elements. The only questions are: what’s it representing, and by how much?
Why Apple’s Interfaces Will Be Skeuomorphic Forever, And Why Yours Will Be Too
Michelle Schulp redesigned the WordPress Template Hierarchy to make it easier to use. Based on her design, Rami Abraham already created an HTML Version. I think they both did a very good job and i am sure this will find it’s way into the Codex sooner or later.
As a person with a passion for infographics and simplifying the display of data, I am always looking for ways to make information more clear. The world is filled with an ever-increasing amount of data, but this data is only useful to us if it is usable. A well designed infographic makes even the most complex ideas understandable, but a poorly designed infographic can make simple ideas needlessly confusing. It is this exact usability issue that plagues most infographics today, even within a place I seem to be spending an ever-increasing amount of my time: the WordPress Codex.
Redesigning The WordPress Template Hierarchy – Marktime Media.
Since copywriting is interface design, you can do an awful lot of great design in a text editor. Don’t worry about where things will go, or how they will fit. Worry about explaining it clearly and then build the rest of the interface around that explanation.
Jason Fried, 37 Signals
Insight: Since copywriting is interface design, you… by Jason Fried of 37signals.