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I’ve never been able to square the Eastern vs Western dichotomy of design aesthetic between the approaches to web vs product. Eastern product design seems to em
by acdanger 8y ago
I’ve never been able to square the Eastern vs Western dichotomy of design aesthetic between the approaches to web vs product. Eastern product design seems to embrace minimalism far more readily than Western design, but the inverse is true for web design.
- dredmorbius 8y agoEastern typography and charactersets have exceedingly different affordances to Western (esp. Latin alphabet) ones. Whether or how this includes differences in degree, depth, or distinctions of, say, reading literacy, I don't know. At one level, though, Ling's Carss reminds me strongly of Amazon's recent design trends (past five years or so).
- astkaasa 8y agoA very common view about why amazon lost Chinese market share is that amazon has much less information about the goods compared with its Chinese opponents.
- dredmorbius 8y agoAmazon certainly has little enough information on products in its non-Asian variants.