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You sound just like a baby boomer complaining about how all music is bad these days. There's no new pattern here: good design, like good music, is remembered wh
by notjustanymike 7y ago
You sound just like a baby boomer complaining about how all music is bad these days. There's no new pattern here: good design, like good music, is remembered while bad design is forgotten. There were repetitive design patterns and lazy emulation ten and twenty years ago, just like there are now, but we don't talk about them much.
I personally coded way more table based drop shadows, tickers, and splash screens than I wanted to. Those ideas then, just as now, came from lazy product managers, small budgets, and general mediocrity.
- blitmap 7y agoI found his commentary constructive. I didn't realize we had gone through several periods of "this design is the most popular". I think he's expressing that people hop on bandwagons rather than understanding the concepts or disciplines behind the design. Design taken as seriously as architecture.
- toiletfuneral 7y agoNo, he’s not expressing that “people jumping on bandwagon” because he literally opens his comment with “I have a problem with designers” specifically. And it’s a strange ignorance to only attribute trendiness to a single discipline.