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Perhaps the idea of brutalist web design fits? (https://brutalist-web.design/ https://brutalist-web.design/) HN is a good example of it IMO.
by Reelin 6y ago
Perhaps the idea of brutalist web design fits? (https://brutalist-web.design/ https://brutalist-web.design/) HN is a good example of it IMO.
- clarry 6y agoIt looks alright but to me the simple-web ideal is rather like.. no design. Like, you don't design an essay, or a comment, you just write one. And so was the web. Initially you did not do "web design", you wrote hyperlinked documents with some markup to support formatting (not design!) and embedding images; how it looks in the end is up to the user agent (and transitively to the user who could pick and configure their UA). Then web design happened and it all went to hell. Web "designers" started doing "cute" things and business owners started wanting more and more branding and fashionable stuff.. and here we are. I've said it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608293
- dredmorbius 6y agoHN looks simple, but its under-the-surface table-based layout is ... actually something of a mess. Especially if you want to parse or reformat it readily (e.g., by parsing the structure, not just reskinning CSS).