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Not totally sure this belongs on HN, but it was at least informative and well written. It's not at all about philosophy, but about design trends. I was sort of

Not totally sure this belongs on HN, but it was at least informative and well written. It's not at all about philosophy, but about design trends. I was sort of vaguely aware that Scandinavian simplicity was getting long in the tooth and that vintage, humorous, and eclectic was back in. I think it would be interesting to consider if we could end up seeing this reflected in UI and graphic design.

whytaka 5y ago
Lots of website designs have featured this genre of “cluttered beauty” for many years already. Personally I hate it. It makes everything so difficult to read. IMO it’s unlikely to be featured in interface design as I’m sure past the branding advantage, it’s just bad for accessibility.
- lucumo 5y ago
  Do you have any examples? I'm kind of interested in other web design styles than the Ikea-and-Apple kind.
  - whytaka 5y ago
    It might not be the best resource for the claim I made but you can check out awwwards.com.
laurent92 5y ago
First, there were Windows apps, with menus, entirely browseable by keyboard shortcuts for every menu, contextual help with F1 everywhere, universal and automatic support for Tab, Esc, Enter, speech support, applications were complex and as you grew better at them, you could browse them faster than a clerk buying an airplane ticket on Amadeus (the ancient text interface where each keystroke is a complex command). Then we had apps and webapps. People loved them. They had no keyboard shortcuts, no menus, “tab” didn’t lead anywhere, colors were not uniform, concepts neither, and “usability” meant “fewer functions”. There was no way to write on your resume that you were expert at any of them. And they replaced each other fast. Let’s hope we’ll reinvent advanced user interfaces.