shaz Posted June 24, 2007 at 5:17 am | Permalink
my opinion is obviously a bit biased, but I do agree that design is really important, not only with blogs, but for any type of web property. For example, I recently bought a journal and was so impressed with it that I immediately visited their website, which was so ugly and unprofessional that I was completely turned off.
Sometimes I do wonder if the average person really care how well-designed a website really is, because in conversations with my husband, it becomes really obvious that I am extremely critical of designs, but as long as he likes the content, the design doesn’t really bother him (he does appreciate well designed websites, but it’s not that important to him).
One thing we do agree on however is flashing, animated images all over the page – not a good first impression!
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Matt Posted December 27, 2006 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
It’s just a shame that this isn’t something that a business would do on its own. Like ethics, just something you do because it’s right.
As for companies being scared of their customers, they are rightfully so. It’s the customer who is going to make or break their next “big thing”. Blogs are a very useful tool in which the customer and general public can give feedback in a positive way, instead of the old method: sit back, and wait for it to either fail or succeed.
Blogs should be incorporated into the testing phases of the product as well. This could potentially lead to fewer products coming out that fail, so to speak.