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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (219)12/20/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: Hoatzin  Read Replies (3) of 644
 
I think you might be attributing to malice what is probably due to…er, however the rest of that goes.

Here's what I think:

Somewhere at GNET is a pointy-haired Dilbert boss.

He's wearing khakis and a polo shirt, but the brain is the same. He thinks that using arial fonts at all times, and a consistent sludge color scheme is "critical to segmenting our brand identity going forward" or some crap like that.

And there's no-one there with the balls to stand up and say, "Hey, can't you see that the dreary blue bar on top of every page weighs down like a big sad Seattle raincloud? Did it occur to you that the button your customers hit the most is "Next"? So why put it 4 pixels away from the "Remove subject mark" function?"

And so on and so forth. The simple stuff that a child could see at once, but adults with a multi-million net worth are apparently blind to.

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