I agree with what you're saying, but I also think it leaves out the difference between an item appearing unfinished, and an item appearing gaudy.
To extend your metaphor, you're not merely carving a marble bust, you're also gluing on trinkets and coating it with glitter and plastering it with stickers.
I'm not at all dismissing the importance of MySpace and GeoCities and et al; I just think it's useful to look at them as a large body of research for the difference between professional and amateur design tastes.
To extend your metaphor, you're not merely carving a marble bust, you're also gluing on trinkets and coating it with glitter and plastering it with stickers.
I'm not at all dismissing the importance of MySpace and GeoCities and et al; I just think it's useful to look at them as a large body of research for the difference between professional and amateur design tastes.