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		indspenceable on July 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving... Doesn't it seem like a bad sign to say: "Here is where you should learn about UI - just ignore the bad UI." For all I know there is lots of good content there, but I'm immediately turned off of learning about UI from someone who can't even be bothered to make it easy to parse his frontpage.

isleyaardvark on July 31, 2012 | [–]

But it's not bad UI per se. It's just not particularly attractive.

To put it another way, I've never had a problem finding what I was looking for on his site.

edit: here's another example of what I'm talking about: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3215-liveauctioneers-an-unlik...

petervandijck on Aug 1, 2012 | [–]

Ugliness != bad UI.

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