Everything Looks The Same
exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness
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Everything Looks The Same
ALTHOUGH imitation is one of the great instruments used by Providence in bringing our nature towards its perfection, yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, and so on in an eternal circle, it is easy to see that there never could be any improvement amongst them.
On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part I/Chapter 17 - Wikisource, the free online library
Imagine working at Meta and making $1m/year in total comp as a product manager and your entire job is to just copy and paste things from other apps.
That’s the dream
Alex Cohentwitter.com
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... See more
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