> obviously has great design already, as it's the most popular website in the world.
Amazon has (sorry for anyone who works there) hideous design. HIDEOUS. It is a very popular website.
There are dozens of examples of websites with bad design that are popular. Many web-forums have thousands, tens of thousands, of users yet are really hard to use.
It's not particularly hard to use. You think of a topic you want to read, type it in the search and press enter. You start reading that topic. And you can click on a hyperlink to related articles within that article.
Great design already, with a few rough edges. Nothing that needs a fundamental overhaul. I would hate to see Wikipedia go the way of Digg!
Amazon has (sorry for anyone who works there) hideous design. HIDEOUS. It is a very popular website.
There are dozens of examples of websites with bad design that are popular. Many web-forums have thousands, tens of thousands, of users yet are really hard to use.