perhaps, before the thread derails into a bunch of comments like the parent, we should consider that the article is not a comment on what your side-projects look like, those obviously should look however you please. rather the comment is directed at folks who want both great UX, and for their taste to reflected on the website, and quite frankly: some of you have absolutely no sense of what usability affordances require, not to mention _taste_.
Counterpoint: that's also wrong and those who give up the idea of their website being for "them" (a person or group) end up making websites that are bad. Jakob's law is often taken as support for the opposite position, but if Google looked like search engines circa 1998, no one would have switched.
have you considered, in the specific example of google being different from the rest, that all the other services were _wrong,_ or their goals were different than google's?
Google did, and we did. Google won the search engine war by having a far superior engine, not because they had cute art for the six letters of the company name (which came later).
Time for my favourite old man yells at cloud opinion.
The internet was a far better place when websites were created by individuals mainly for themselves. And probably hosted for free on Geocities.
perhaps, before the thread derails into a bunch of comments like the parent, we should consider that the article is not a comment on what your side-projects look like, those obviously should look however you please. rather the comment is directed at folks who want both great UX, and for their taste to reflected on the website, and quite frankly: some of you have absolutely no sense of what usability affordances require, not to mention _taste_.
Counterpoint: that's also wrong and those who give up the idea of their website being for "them" (a person or group) end up making websites that are bad. Jakob's law is often taken as support for the opposite position, but if Google looked like search engines circa 1998, no one would have switched.
have you considered, in the specific example of google being different from the rest, that all the other services were _wrong,_ or their goals were different than google's?
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Google did, and we did. Google won the search engine war by having a far superior engine, not because they had cute art for the six letters of the company name (which came later).