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Fashion is cyclical. At one point people will get bored of these ambiguous modern UI with hidden fields and gestures, and made of 50 shades of light grey that o

by cm2187 7y ago

Fashion is cyclical. At one point people will get bored of these ambiguous modern UI with hidden fields and gestures, and made of 50 shades of light grey that only a calibrated display can render with any discernable contrast. And we will rediscover the merit of clear and explicit UIs, and Apple will claim it just invented it!

schrijver 7y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I guess that’s a matter of time. Check out the flyer for this party: https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-magdalena-bay-cobrah-dolly-bing-bing/ https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-mag... They used vectors, looks like the Windows 95 aesthetics that was so connected to pixel survives this transition quite well!
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
  - xattt 7y ago
    Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
  - nobleach 7y ago
    Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier.... Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.
- lucideer 7y ago
  > already back into fashion That seems more like retro/throwback fashion (which is always a thing, in every era) than the fundamental principles of that aesthetic being incorporated into modern design (which is what I would typically consider actually being "in fashion"). Still, nice to consider we're at the point where that's what we're framing as retro. No longer is it System 1 or CRT terminals.
- bartread 7y ago
  > The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion It's certainly big in vaporwave and, to some extent, synthwave. Obviously both genres of music but also, and particularly the former, very strong aesthetics.
- andrepd 7y ago
  That's vaporwave, a specific aesthetic style, and it's quite different from Win98 design making a mainstream comeback :p
api 7y ago
That will be really nice, since it will benefit from high DPI and of course much better displays.
fstephany 7y ago
Haiku OS and Gnome have such a different feeling when I use them. Haiku has this delightful vibe to it, I can't explain.
- soulofmischief 7y ago
  Gnome evokes the feeling of shoving my eyes through a cheese-grater and then being gaslighted about the usefulness of every UI convenience I've come to take for granted.

by cm2187 7y ago

schrijver 7y ago

I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I guess that’s a matter of time. Check out the flyer for this party: https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-magdalena-bay-cobrah-dolly-bing-bing/ https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-mag... They used vectors, looks like the Windows 95 aesthetics that was so connected to pixel survives this transition quite well!

squiggleblaz 7y ago
That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
- xattt 7y ago
  Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
- nobleach 7y ago
  Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier.... Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.
lucideer 7y ago
> already back into fashion That seems more like retro/throwback fashion (which is always a thing, in every era) than the fundamental principles of that aesthetic being incorporated into modern design (which is what I would typically consider actually being "in fashion"). Still, nice to consider we're at the point where that's what we're framing as retro. No longer is it System 1 or CRT terminals.
bartread 7y ago
> The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion It's certainly big in vaporwave and, to some extent, synthwave. Obviously both genres of music but also, and particularly the former, very strong aesthetics.
andrepd 7y ago
That's vaporwave, a specific aesthetic style, and it's quite different from Win98 design making a mainstream comeback :p

api 7y ago

That will be really nice, since it will benefit from high DPI and of course much better displays.

fstephany 7y ago

Haiku OS and Gnome have such a different feeling when I use them. Haiku has this delightful vibe to it, I can't explain.

soulofmischief 7y ago
Gnome evokes the feeling of shoving my eyes through a cheese-grater and then being gaslighted about the usefulness of every UI convenience I've come to take for granted.