Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
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Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
try to use fixed-width design for your website to limit potential negative impact, and to have more control over the layout of your pages and how they look and flow for visitors on many different screen sizes.
Rich Page • Website Optimization: An Hour a Day
People with positive taste, on the other hand, can make things that genuinely look good. This gives them a lot more freedom in their designs (they can use colors other than white!). Truly good designers have positive taste. Unfortunately for people like us, Apple seems to have hired most of them and put them to work building fairly bland web sites.
Aaron Swartz • Two Conceptions of Taste (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
Design also has a real impact on how we value things. Sites with a design optimized to what the brain likes will be more trusted and liked.
Darren Bridger • Neuro Design: Neuromarketing Insights to Boost Engagement and Profitability
Refactoring UI
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Good design is opinionated
