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Sending me an email to tell me that I have a message with a link to actually read the message is unforgivably bad design.

I don't want to:

Why not? It's "unforgivably bad design" only if enough people don't click, browse and sign up for services. Who cares if they annoy me or you? It's a numbers game, thy don't need to please everyone. As the bad pitch goes"...if we only get 0.1% of users to..."




It's "unforgivably bad design" only if enough people don't click...

I understand your sarcasm, but 'good design' is an aesthetic, not a metric.

[edit: on second thoughts, I think I may have over-simplified things. Is 'good design' purely quantifiable?]




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