Design That Gets Out Of The Way
Jimmy “Wikipedia” Wales did a great interview with Craig “craigslist” Newmark for this afternoon’s keynote, and it turns out they’re friends in real life. Wales asked Newmark about his citizen journalist aspirations, which Newmark said are largely unformed and greatly exaggerated by the press. Whew. Job security for at least another month.
More interesting was learning about the design sensibility of craigslist, something Newmark was once told had the visual appeal of a pipe wrench. Newmark said he just did something as simple as possible because he didn’t know any better.
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