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Don’t Worry, These Gangly-Armed Cartoons Are Here to Protect You from Big Tech
- computerphage 5y ago(2019)
- colordrops 5y agoI used to work at Symantec in 1996 and they were using the exact same sort of figures in marketing materials. An employee thought they looked odd and asked upper management during an all-hands why they were used, and someone responded that the small heads and long limbs made the bodies look tall, which inspires confidence in the viewer.
- lupire 5y agoArticle has no content. It just complains that Evil Corps are using Nice Looking images as marketing.
- Mountain_Skies 5y ago>They are ethnically non-specific to represent diversity. Quite the Orwellian statement.
- greatgib 5y agoAbsolutely useless piece of text with absolutely no relation to the clickbaity title. Don't waste your time reading this. Tldr is: big corp are all using the same flat colorless person drawings style for their illustrations because it is neutral in emotion and interpretation. The author just write thousand words to celebrate the genius of this...
- nomaxx117 5y agoI've come to associate this style with dishonesty. Alegria was designed to elicit feelings of trust, but ironically it now is associated with firms that cannot be trusted.
- silent_cal 5y agoI hate these ugly cartoons