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Comment by joseph_cooney | Hacker News Reader

why do people want to make the web look the same? - to leverage the good work of others making things look nice. To allow users to easily know how things work, because they are familiar with them.

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That, was the single most stupid thing I've heard in a while. "because they are familiar with them". It's websites, not homes for elderly people. It's the designers job to make the user be able to understand where something is and the direction this conversation is heading, I don't think any of you have ever seen good design - or a designer for that matter.

And those who say that a feature that brings in profit is more valuable than how it looks are just money-sucking suits. No wonder you want sites to look the same. It's like lawyers who also dress the same.

Funny that your startup's website (http://mediashock.me/) looks exactly like bootstrap and everything else. You're doing an awesome job representing dropout 20 year olds (http://codefoe.com/).

Come on, at least give them some credit for using "modern and processes."

re: the single most stupid thing I've heard in a while - wow, I say stuff way more stupid than that all the time. Really, though - most users don't look at a site and think 'gee, I wish the designer had dome something more original with the login UI'. They want to look at stuff and immediately know how it works. The UI needs to be almost mechanical. If they notice it, it is usually a bad thing, and if using familiar idioms helps achieve familiarity, then good.

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