Today I found myself doing further research about a service I was about to subscribe just because they were using bootstrap. I am wondering, what could be the psychological effect to a developer/ designer regarding using a service using a website built with twitter bootstrap? Would you provide your card details with the same ease you would on a different website?
Personally, I make certain assumptions of a site using Bootstrap, all of which revolve around product maturity: if a site has identifiable Bootstrap design, then I assume they haven't been old enough/profitable enough to afford a new coat of paint.<p>That being said, unless you're creating a service specifically for picky designers/developers, it doesn't matter. 99.8% of the Internet has no idea what Bootstrap is.<p>(ps: the folks who first made Bootstrap worked at Twitter, but Twitter let them take the ownership of the product with them as they left.)
Are you serious? Isn't this like asking whether you would trust the coffee from a coffee shop because they had a sign on the door printed in Papyrus or Comic Sans? Good or bad design decisions aside, who cares? What could that possibly have to do with the coffee?<p>There are endless websites with terrible web designs that provide valuable, reliable services. And there are endless more websites with good-looking, hand-built designs that offer no service of value and, could have their (plain-text) password database cracked tomorrow and disappear off the net forever.<p>Even if you are going to judge an entire company by the web framework it chooses to use, Bootstrap could be a good sign, as they are at least tech-savvy enough to know what that is, as opposed to using the default Wordpress theme!
"Sacrilege!"<p>Unless you're a code auditor, where you have time to spend looking and analyzing the code, there's no reason to not trust anyone who didn't code the website from 0. Bootstrap as well other frameworks are just that: a conjunction of best practices and some other modules that proven to work well across several browsers and devices.<p>We can argue speediness and all the yada-yada, but in the end, pro developers repeat the same things even missing one bigs when do all from 0. Using frameworks is a way to avoid those mistakes and, to have a development line well documented. You still can extend, trim the framework as you want.<p>Think other professions never distrust anyone because he's using that library, that gem, that framework. In the end everyone has limited time to execute work, so if other programers enjoy those libraries why the frontend ones don't?
In some cases you won't even recognize Bootstrap. For example YC-company <a href="https://kippt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kippt.com/</a> uses Bootstrap, but wouldn't guess it without knowing it.<p>Anyway, I think Bootstrap default theme (or slightly modified, but recognizable) is alright for young products targeted to "normal" people who have no idea about Bootstrap. I think it matters more for developers and designers and products targeted for them should invest in creating custom theme.
Where's the beef? If it is a Web design company, web prefab is an issue because that's their beef. If the company sells something else and the site looks/works great, I would only give them credit for saving time/money/energy by using prefab.
Twitter Bootstrap is the best CSS framework but you mean rather a website with a default theme. There are a lot of themes and templates of Twitter Bootstrap that don't look like Bootstrap, for example on wrapbootstrap.com.
Twitter Bootstrap is a CSS framework which makes site presentable. If the intent of the site is not design innovation, why bother. Personally for me, I am allergic to CSS and so bootstrap is great for developers like me.
I don't care with which tech stack a website was built. The <i>really</i> interesting thing for a quick check is more: does the website use SSL for sensitive data?
>Would you provide your card details with the same ease you would on a different website?<p>The only thing I'd look for would be EV SSL. No "green bar", no credit card.
developer/ designers don't pay for web services anyway :) It's only the rest of the population that pay for things. Said developer/ designers find open source alternatives.<p>Who cares what tech stack a web app is written with. It's like saying you wont pay for services that use rails, prototype instead or jquery, or a color palette you don't like.