Everything Looks The Same
exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness
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Everything Looks The Same
Why Do So Many Brands Change Their Logos and Look Like Everyone Else?
Radek Sienkiewiczvelvetshark.com
And I hear all sorts of interesting worries and anxieties from people. Lots of people say something like, “Oh, I would like to be more playful and passionate, but that’s not what the world cares about. The world only cares about what is popular, what is controversial, what makes money.” To which I say – so what? You don’t have to care about what... See more
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
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?