Good design

Anton Berkovich

I think the most important thing for good design is simplicity. Simple websites are just better to look at, especially when you are on the clock and need to be efficient. For example, besides superior search results, I think one reason Google is more successful than Yahoo is because of it's simple homepage, that has hardly changed over the years. If you go to Archive.org, you can see saved, archived websites from throughout the years. Most sites in the late 90's were crazy, with annoying animated graphics and multi-colors. Google's, though, in the late 90's, was pretty much almost the same as it is now. I think a lot of sites are going towards the more simple trend. Along those lines, I think a site with good design has simple, muted colors, low amount of moving graphics (unless that is the focus of that particular page), and intuitive navigation. I bet that any site that makes it hard to find what you're looking for is a site less viewed.