[Sigia-l] is bad design a choice?

[Skot Nelson]

On Oct-17-2005, at 4:09 PM, Someone wrote:

>> Only a non-designer would separate the two.

This is hogwash. Utter nonsense presented with no evidence.

>> And someone explain to Google Maps, for example, why design has  
>> *not* made a
>> difference in providing virtually the same content that MapQuest  
>> had been
>> for a decade but with a superior design.

Can someone actually verify that Google Maps is currently more  
succesful than Map Quest?

I'm not disagreeing that *I* and people like us prefer it, but I'd be  
willing to bet that the vast majority of people are still using  
Mapquest. My mother doesn't know Google Maps exists (maybe  
Alexander's does? ;)

FWIW, my opinion of what makes Google Maps better goes back to search  
- it took me 20 minutes to get a map from SFO to the Sacramento  
Convention Center from Mapquest; the same thing in Google maps takes  
just a few minutes, because it deals with fuzzy searching much much  
more effectively. The maps they both produce suck when printed suck,  
but the printed directions are great. I keep them on my tank bag  
quite often.

On Oct-17-2005, at 4:09 PM, Eric Scheid wrote:

> That's not addressing what Jared is saying though.

Thanks to Eric for pointing this out.
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