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File under: people with no taste who don't really deserve to be successful.

Even if you don't think "doesn't deserve" applies, still file under no taste.

If you want to be tasteless and really big, try getting an executive position in Wal-Mart or something.



Taste is not universal. This not PC, but there is a correlation between class and taste in design. The clean, uncluttered design appeals to the 'elite', but the masses just have different taste in things. There are reasons why CNN and Fox News look the way they do.

http://www.graphpaper.com/2006/09-04_class-and-web-design-pa...


There may be an underlying reason for the difference in tastes here: if you are generally inclined to reflect on the things you encounter you don't want to be presented irrelevant clutter because it wastes your reflection resources. The "masses" are not inclined that way, for them it's just: the more they get presented with the better.


CNN.com actually is a beautiful site.


It is beautiful - part of my point.


Oh, I misunderstood. You were comparing the types of people who use CNN to the types of people who use Fox News. Got it.


You're right, he most certainly doesn't deserve to be successful.

I love this line from nyt: "Spending time at Plenty of Fish is a visually painful experience."

You have to have a really screwed up interface to make someone call it "visually painful."




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