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A quick scan of these templates gives a strong impression of, ahem, "the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web": https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit
by naniwaduni 8y ago
A quick scan of these templates gives a strong impression of, ahem, "the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web": https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1412524 https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...
We live in a time when the old "holy grail" of column layouts is attainable without even too much contortion, even with the added wrinkle of adapting to small screens, but this is what we satisfy ourselves with now? What happened?
- mard 8y agoI am under impression that some web designers tend to follow the lowest common denominator, which is the vertical mobile touch display, then enforce the same experience across all platforms. This is why I sometimes see hamburger menus on desktop even though they have no place in any possible desktop design. PC games ported from consoles suffer from problems of similar nature.