This is one of the fundamental conflicts software designers have

All too often I see this in website design. It manifests itself as websites that are so beautifully formed that they are either impossible to use or impossible to edit or both. Often I see web design people suggest a complete rebuild to cure the problems when (usually) iterative improvements would be better. It would certainly be easier to test what is working. But there is good money in producing beautiful websites...money that is banked well before the poor conversion performance becomes apparent.

In their book Making Websites Win, Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson (two people who truly understand website design and two truly lovely gentlemen) liken aesthetic design to asking Mo Farah to run carrying an egg and spoon!

In reply to Re^8: Perl regex speed (Form follows function) by Bod
in thread Perl regex speed by malaigo

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