Why Is the World Losing Color?
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Why Is the World Losing Color?
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
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
The more color differences they see, the more they have to work to figure out what the distinctions represent.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
intersections, dominant colors, outliers.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
“Bad news: The foremost experts in cultural analysis are reporting concepts and phrases which are statistically commonplace. [...] We’ve lost sight of what it means to be brave. It feels like our facilities for riskiness and imagination have atrophied.”
Meta Trends 2024 by Matt Klein
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
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.