The web & almost any gui lacks one important characteristics for timelessness - simply: time. What we consider timeless in other desogn disciplines are pattern

The web & almost any gui lacks one important characteristics for timelessness - simply: time. What we consider timeless in other desogn disciplines are patterns that emerged throughout many centuries of cultural transformation. Digital UI is not only much much younger, it also enables sheer endless variation of any functional pattern, arbitrary design. I would argue much of the UX patterns we established so far, be it the button or a slideshow, windows & menus, all these UI conventions are barebone concepts that already are timeless - and when it comes to styling, looks, it's very well possible to design in a way that is already timeless, it's just paint. And some of today's design schools will become timeless in time