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I agree with the author's point, but I really wish there were some examples. It's one thing to say that you're against stupid, boring interface design. I think we could all agree on that. But I bet we'd have a slightly harder time agreeing on just which interface designs are stupid/boring and which are simple/elegant.

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I'll throw out an example: The Drupal admin interface is an example of stupid/boring, while the Wordpress admin interface is an example of simple and elegant.

Anyone agree?

I can't agree at all about the WordPress admin interface, which I use to run the website of my nonprofit (because that is what was set up by someone else). It's a very annoying interface and one I hope to replace as soon as possible--although I acknowledge I am still shopping for what to replace it with.

I'd agree. WordPress has gotten where it is by doing two things: making it easy to use, and keeps adding useful features that work, more or less, pretty well.

The quality of the code behind WP is very different discussion, but I'd say you're right.

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