flat design sucks

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@lsa you've always been a fan of skeumorphic design so I'd guess you're happy that flat design is finally falling out of fashion.
 
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I liked it at first for some things. But they’ve taken it to a place where everything just looks lazy now. My work phone updated to the newest OS and the icons (sorry, the tiles, because it’s so important they have a different name on phones) all look like the original iPhone.
 
one more thing ;)

fuck modern web design, as per reddit:


"Modern web design is trash. Web design peaked circa 2010 and has been downhill ever since.​

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TLDR; see the title

Modern websites are all about oversized font, massive gaps between text, oversized images, infinite scrolling, and a general lack of detail and information. 9 times out of 10 it is harder to get the information you need than it was a decade ago. The horrific minimalist trend that seems to keep growing with no end in sight has completely undermined the entire utility of the internet. Detailed text seems to have been sacrificed for catchy headlines, oversized images, video and lots and lots of empty space. (This is not a rant against image and video, they of course have their place, i.e. youtube).

These vain modern design principles of minimalism remove information. It loathes information. It wants only to show you what it thinks you want to see, instead of providing you with options to choose from. It seems this entire trend was fueled by the mobile craze and apps. Websites now strive to look and function like apps, and this is the fundamental flaw. Because apps are extremely basic, websites are now also extremely basic. You see, with apps, functionality is limited. They always have and always will be when screen real estate is limited. Apps have buttons and text large so people can read it on a small screen from a distance. This, I understand. What I don't understand, and absolutely abhor, is making desktop-based websites look like apps. This, to me, is a heinous design crime, inexcusable and lazy.

There was once a time when mobile sites and desktop sites co-existed. They used to live together in harmony. This is the period I believe to be the peak era in desktop web design, right around 2010. There are countless websites you can pull up on Archive.org and compare: YouTube, eBay, various news sites, any big site, really. There are some exceptions, but in general, they are all better circa 2010 than present day. Allow me to provide a particularly egregious example I stumbled into today:

whitehouse.gov in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100720084119/http://www.whitehouse.gov
whitehouse.gov in 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20210501000135/https://www.whitehouse.gov
(give them time to load completely, wayback machine is often slow to load)

Note how the 2010 website has a functional and attractive navigation menu on top, using drawn images with detail and shading. Notice how well organized and methodical the layout is, and the sheer amount of information provided, giving the user a sense of "this is an important website" which it is supposed to be being a government site. Note the instantaneous drop down menu effect, no useless slow fade-in. Note the functional site map on the footer of the page. This 2010 version feels full of life, it feels alive and welcoming.

Now look at the 2022 version. It is cold and empty and generic looking. It gives a sense of non-importance. It does not feel like a hub of activity like the 2010 site does. It has an atrocious hamburger style menu, whose contents are unknown until clicked. Upon clicking said hamburger the entire screen fills up, only to reveal a few lines of oversized font. Disgusted with the lack of choices, the user has only one option, to click the X in the corner to close the joke of a menu. The user mine as well click the X on their browser too, because this entire modern world wide web is a joke of a design mess."



agreed
 
Adamant said:
This is basically what happened to America as a whole.
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yes

the internet and social media has sucked the fun and life out of everyone. everything has been boiled down to a safe, harmless event, mouse click, or swipe. everything is sterile and disinfected. everything's been filtered through a DEI office or through the PC police. spontaneity is dead over fear of embarrassment.

when you go to a concert, you see a sea of people not enjoying the moment so they can record it, never to watch it again anyway. everyone is surveilled, censored, and self-censored. people have been reduced to their instagram account or linkedin page.

we're moving towards a world that looks more and more like this, and i absolutely hate it.

 
Barney Gumble said:
and while we're at it, fuck the lifeless, faceless, nameless communist art style called "Corporate Memphis" that's straight out of a soviet poster that you see in every woke DEI corporation

fuck it

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Excuse the fuck out of my French, Soviet posters have nothing to do with that soulless ugly bullshit.

Examples of Soviet posters:
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