May The Best Interface Win
from the gushing-over-Amazon dept
Well, here's the second story of the week from a well known tech writer gushing over the Amazon.com user interface. Did Amazon send out some sort of letter to big name tech writers? (If you don't read Techdirt regularly - and why not? - the first story was from Salon on Tuesday). Anyway, this one has some amusing quotes from a different company that sets up e-commerce stores (the writer was comparing them to Amazon). When asked about some bad interface designs, the company's VP of information systems is proud that they've designed a bad interface. His explanation is that they explain on the site how to use it - so rather than cater to what users want, they enforce their own (easier to program) usability.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
