Elf Sternberg

This is a note I meant to drop on your previous entry on design issues, but the basic observation is: "well-made website" contains a lot of assumptions about "well-made" and even "good".

I've found a great liberation in accepting that an e-commerce site that reminds me of GeoCities circa 1997 can be "good" and "well-made", just as I prefer a web sites that render quickly and are usable in Lynx. That a particular set of design guidelines scares me as a customer off is okay, because I'm not a market sample. The economic world would collapse if everyone bought like me. I may think that's a good thing, but it's not going to happen, so understanding it as it is, without laying my judgments on it, is of value.