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Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#84

Post by laumars »

nahreally wrote: post #76
laumars wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly Lin is now blaming Hacker News for hacking her site with the intention of taking it offline - which is just retarded as: a) we're legitimate curious visitors (albeit not maybe not customers - but who's to say that some of us wouldn't be converted from window shoppers to buyers - that's kind of the point of websites after all) and b) her webserver set up to only allow for 500 concurrent connections. Which is jus…

What makes you think the site is "serious" now? She just doesn't know what Hacker News is, and can't be blamed for that. She just knows that some self-proclaimed "hackers" brought her site down with lots of traffic. The ASCII art in the source code is awesome, BTW.

Oh I'm sure it's not meant to be taken completely serious. But the question is whether it was designed to be so bad that it goes viral. ie is it accidentally badly designed but meant to be lighthearted, or badly designed with the intention of becoming it's own publicity stunt?

The ASCII art is actually pretty impressive - which now has me wondering if I was wrong to dismiss her.

I guess this site is proof that there's often a fine line between genius and insanity.

edit: though there's always the 3rd option; she could just be a successful troll.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by bradshaw1965 »

The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produced "Red gets read!" lore in direct marketing. Still gives me the heabie jeabies looking at that stuff though.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by dan1234 »

zaf wrote: post #83
ap2002 wrote: post #17

Take a look at the sauce - Ling definitely knows what's up! Epic ASCII art right there!

Yeah, I saw that to. Tried finding clues who does the website but no luck after first scan.

I'm not sure who handles it now, but Jamie Hurst[1] handled it up until quite recently.

[1]http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamiehurst88

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by swethrowaway »

bradshaw1965 wrote: post #86

The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produced "Red gets read!" lore in direct marketing. Still gives me the heabie jeabies looking at that stuff though.

Is there a good beginner's guide to learning about that sort of thing? I'll use whatever works, even arcane and ugly landing pages.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by harel »

swethrowaway wrote: post #88
bradshaw1965 wrote: post #86

The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produced "Red gets read!" lore in direct marketing. Still gives me the heabie jeabies looking at that stuff though.

Is there a good beginner's guide to learning about that sort of thing? I'll use whatever works, even arcane and ugly landing pages.

The best way to learn is to measure. Try one type of ad, measure response and reach, adjust, measure again. Rinse and repeat until you see what works and what doesn't.
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