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4 Responses to “Bad Design Kills: Sweet mother of God, Flash-only?”

1. Ara Pehlivanian Says:
   October 30th, 2005 at 6:34am

   Well there is a little thing on the front page that says “static mode” though it isn’t clickable. But hey, you answered your own question, they’re graphic designers not web developers!

2. Coda Says:
   October 30th, 2005 at 11:12am

   If usability doesn’t factor into design, then it’s not design–it’s performance art.

3. Ara Pehlivanian Says:
   November 11th, 2005 at 2:02pm

   Hmmm… so what you’re saying is, if it doesn’t work, then it should just hang on a wall and look pretty but not masquerade as a functional site?

4. Coda Says:
   November 11th, 2005 at 4:59pm

   Pretty much. The folks who made a flash-only site don’t get to lecture the world on how much design (like theirs, presumably) saves lives, etc.

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