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Ironically enough, WaPo has an entire article about the brutalist trend in web-design, and the very first example they give is Hacker News. https://www.washing
by whack 9y ago
Ironically enough, WaPo has an entire article about the brutalist trend in web-design, and the very first example they give is Hacker News.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites/?utm_term=.91eae9d7140c https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05...
- alexandercrohde 9y agoPretty sure HN is brutalism (along with CL, and possible even google). I don't imagine a designer was hired at all for the process.
- tyrust 9y agopg closes his laptop as a single tear wets his cheek
- metrognome 9y agoHN is based on the forum of the language it's written in. http://arclanguage.org/forum http://arclanguage.org/forum
- Bartweiss 9y agoIt's funny - I accept HN as brutalism, but not poor design. (Though I doubt a designer was hired.) The color scheme at HN is superb for a website. #FFFFFF on #000000 is painful to look at, everyone knows that. But most sites have solved the problem with grey-on-white, or even grey-on-grey. It's hard to anyone to read and terrible for those with impaired vision. HN chose solid black on a darkened, but distinctively shaded background. That alone has my lasting gratitude.