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Its funny how gradients were cool in the 90's. Then became uncool and now they're cool again. Now everything is full of gradients - Stripe, Open AI, Apple's new

Its funny how gradients were cool in the 90's. Then became uncool and now they're cool again. Now everything is full of gradients - Stripe, Open AI, Apple's new iPhone promotions/wallpapers come to my mind. I have a question - why are graphic designers all about trends? Whether it is brutalist design or back in 2010 it was all this material UI and flat design. Gradients are popular right now and everyone is jumping on it. In my view today's web designers are decorators than actually understanding the purpose and utility of design. You can't produce timeless design when simultaneously you're chasing trends.

mruts 8y ago
I’ve had a long unanswered question that I think about a lot: does design (fashion, architecture, app UI/UX) evolve or does it just change? Are the fashions we are wearing today better or simply different from 30 years ago? The fact that retro is cool seems to point to it being just different, versus better. But I’m not really sure. A lot of architects almost have a morality about their designs: that a building shouldn’t cover up structural columns or engineering structures. That beauty is honesty, and adding extraneous stuff in the name of design isn’t honest, and in fact, immoral. This is certainly different from the design of buildings 200 or 300 years ago, which often were excessive and baroque. But it’s hard to say one is better than the other.
Adamantcheese 8y ago
If you want to sell whatever you have, despite function, would you rather purchase something that "looks old" or something that "looks new"? I suspect most people would go with the latter. Since "looks new" sells, people will design it in that matter. Note that "looks new" and "looks old" are relative terms to the last design. That's why they're trends and cycle back and forth.

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Its funny how gradients were cool in the 90's. Then became uncool and now they're cool again. Now everything is full of gradients - Stripe, Open AI, Apple's new

by fermienrico 8y ago

mruts 8y ago
I’ve had a long unanswered question that I think about a lot: does design (fashion, architecture, app UI/UX) evolve or does it just change? Are the fashions we are wearing today better or simply different from 30 years ago? The fact that retro is cool seems to point to it being just different, versus better. But I’m not really sure. A lot of architects almost have a morality about their designs: that a building shouldn’t cover up structural columns or engineering structures. That beauty is honesty, and adding extraneous stuff in the name of design isn’t honest, and in fact, immoral. This is certainly different from the design of buildings 200 or 300 years ago, which often were excessive and baroque. But it’s hard to say one is better than the other.
Adamantcheese 8y ago
If you want to sell whatever you have, despite function, would you rather purchase something that "looks old" or something that "looks new"? I suspect most people would go with the latter. Since "looks new" sells, people will design it in that matter. Note that "looks new" and "looks old" are relative terms to the last design. That's why they're trends and cycle back and forth.