He's also designed user interfaces for several internal tools, and he's currently hard at work on the next generation of the home page due to ship later this year. And, of course, I am concerned about that.
Visual appeal is important, but it's just a small part of the job.
My primary task is to ensure that the site works well. They come to the site to get information about products, or to have a technical question answered, or to read about developers' issues - things like that. So it's important that the design of the site makes it as clear as possible where they can easily locate that information. That approach shapes everything we do in designing our site. Of course, we have access to the latest Web tools, and we could load the site up with all sorts of visual gadgetry.