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Design is something almost everyone feels qualified to criticize, so a post like this lends itself to all kinds of bikeshedding. Fortunately, we live in the ag
by minus1 14y ago
Design is something almost everyone feels qualified to criticize, so a post like this lends itself to all kinds of bikeshedding.
Fortunately, we live in the age of A/B testing. Rather than listening to any of the speculation in this thread, the thoughtful businessperson can actually quantify just how good or bad a design is at achieving its goal.
- tptacek 14y agoBy your logic, isn't this post itself an instance of bikeshedding?
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- malandrew 14y agoIf by 'post' you are talking about kyro's post, no it isn't bikeshedding because the concept of bike shedding is based on C. Northcote Parkinson's original observation on discussions involving trivial subject matter. Kyro, as a professional designer with lots of experience and domain expertise who also did a complete visual redesign as a critique, would be analogous to those discussing the finer points of building a nuclear reactor in Parkinson's original argument, and not those discussing the color of the bike shed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality