Controversy Over Ugly Design Continues

The uproar that I wrote about in the web design community over the “ugly” design theory that Scoble wrote about is still going strong, and two of the biggest names in the field have added their pleas for sanity.

First of all, Jason Santa Maria chimes in:

Design encompasses much more than you think. If you are still clinging to the idea that design is merely decoration, or that something has to be visually appealing to be successful, you are as thick as the mud you’ve been flinging.

And the mighty Zeldman peered down from Mount Olympus long enough to give us this:

I don’t understand the siren song of this demonstrably idiotic claim. I don’t know why it seduces a new crop of assh*les each year. I only know it does. And then, just as predictably, all the year’s hot young new media designers get in a huff defending design against the fools who attacked it.