[WikiEN-l] Fromowner

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 16:40:15 UTC 2007


On 05/09/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not an unimportant issue. Wikipedia design is starting to date
> and go stale. Design and usability is paramount for any website,
> especially a website of our size
>

Google's current look predates ours. Are there any major usability
issues in the current GUI?

> Maybe hiring a graphic designer to do some work and mockups and things
> isn't such a terrible idea. I realise that we're strapped for cash,
> but unless we want to look exactly the same in another five years
> (which would make us positively prehistoric), I don't think there is
> all that many other options.
>
> --Oskar

And if we changed now we would still be out of fashion in 5 years
time. Currently wikipedia look how people expect wikis to look. no
need to change that.

-- 
geni



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