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It’s Not Just You: Websites Really Do All Look the Same Now
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That’s a problem. Open up any website or app that was made in the past ten years and you’ll see they almost all look the same. This bland Bauhaus-era of UX design is easy to replicate, doesn’t require a whole lot of skill, and has no personality. Swap out the logo on any of these minimalist websites and try to guess which company it is. Good luck.
from Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Rockport Universal) by Irene Pereyra
- Within the past few years, tech companies’ digital design all started to look the same: marginally, monotonously quirky; safe. From the sans-serif fonts to the muted pastel color palette, the stark white backgrounds to the curvy shape and hue of the buttons, most modern software blurs together into a familiar, squint-and-you’ll-confuse-it aesthetic... See more
from Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding" by Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)
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So, there you have it. The interiors of our homes, coffee shops and restaurants all look the same. The buildings where we live and work all look the same. The cars we drive, their colours and their logos all look the same. The way we look and the way we dress all looks the same. Our movies, books and video games all look the same. And the brands we
... See morefrom The age of average by Alex Murrell
- Finding a soul as a product today seems rare in software. The rise of CSS frameworks like Tailwind and others has lowered the bare minimum entry for making a good-looking design. It made life easier but at the same time seemed to degenerate people’s creativity. Alongside trends that come and go, many products and websites look very much the same.
from #4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance? by Itay Dreyfus
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- Many sites will share design solutions, because we’re using the same materials. The consistencies establish best practices; they are proof of design patterns that play off of the needs of a common medium, and not evidence of a visual monoculture.
from Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain by Frank Chimero
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- In this age of digital cacophony dominated by these platforms, no one is looking out for you… but you. It makes perfect sense, then, when individuals tell me they want their website to do the job of “setting the record straight” on who they are and what they do.
from My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? by Laurel Schwulst
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