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Isn't it just a fad? How usable and readable is the brutalist design? Or what are you trying to maximise other than being different?
by dandare 10y ago
Isn't it just a fad? How usable and readable is the brutalist design? Or what are you trying to maximise other than being different?
- jstimpfle 10y agoA fad? Don't you see a problem with many of today's websites? Both from a developer's and a user's perspective.
- dandare 10y agoB specific. Answer the question above, name the problem you have on mind and tell us how is brutalism solving that problem.
- jstimpfle 10y agoDid not downvote. Let's take twitter as a well known and particularly bad example. For a brutalist example, let's take HN. It works. Plus, I'm sure the code is quite simple.
- Crespyl 10y agoFrom skimming the thumbnails in the linked site, I don't know that I'd call HN or reddit brutalist designs, maybe "classic" or "skeletal". The emphasis is on dense content with simple links, and there's not a lot of "live" interactive content on the page. I don't find either site to be particularly ugly or visually offensive, contrary to many of the linked "brutalist" sites. I'd love to see more sites in the HN/reddit model (here's hoping reddit's coming desktop redesign doesn't lose that), but I wouldn't want to actually use more brutalist sites (outside of individual creative expression, anyway).
- jstimpfle 10y agoI didn't coin the term and I don't like it -- but hacker news is actually listed on the linked site.
- pitaj 10y agoSure, many "modern" sites have terrible UX, but that doesn't mean that minimalist or "brutalist" designs are intrinsically any better.
- jstimpfle 10y agoAt least they load quickly. They don't hog you CPU. And they don't mess what you can Ctrl+F. All a great boon for UX, while being easier to design.