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Is it tho? The article cites only two examples: Figma and Gumroad. While Figma obviously has the potential to influence lots of designs by being a design tool,

by hnbad 5y ago

Is it tho? The article cites only two examples: Figma and Gumroad. While Figma obviously has the potential to influence lots of designs by being a design tool, it also seems to match the style much less directly than Gumroad. And while Gumroad is apparently a great example, two off-mainstream sites are hardly enough to base such an extremely broad claim on. Plus this style is not really new. It seems more like a rehash of a lot of elements of a style that came and went roughly a decade ago although at the time taking more inspiration from pop art and golden age comic strips (with trapezoids and bold angles) than the more toned down examples the article shows. There's no reason to assume "neobrutalism" will be more influential than "neo pop art" was at the time. If anything, trends seem to be largely defined by boilerplate toolkits (twitter bootstrap at its time, material now) and OSes (especially iOS but Windows modern UI also had some influence for a while).

yoz-y 5y ago
It looks like a tentative to make it a trend. I’ve never seen a website that looked like what they describe. I’m quite sure there are many of them, but compared to something like the bootstrap look, or the flat design, it doesn’t seem to have any reach at the moment.
viraptor 5y ago
Yeah, it looks to me like another source that tries to make some style a thing. Like the neumorphism which seemed to be most popular on sites with mock-up designs rather than in actual implementations. I've yet to see either that or neobrutalism in the wild.
- hnbad 5y ago
  I was also surprised to see "glassmorphism" dropped without further elaboration like that. While neumorphism was certainly popular on mock-up designs (i.e. something designers enjoyed toying with for a while), "glassmorphism" just looks like acrylic taken to the extreme and acrylic is everywhere -- except it's used as a design element rather than as the foundation of an entire style. I guess the site is biased as saying something is a trend means you can make more money off teaching designers to emulate it.

by hnbad 5y ago

yoz-y 5y ago

It looks like a tentative to make it a trend. I’ve never seen a website that looked like what they describe. I’m quite sure there are many of them, but compared to something like the bootstrap look, or the flat design, it doesn’t seem to have any reach at the moment.

viraptor 5y ago

Yeah, it looks to me like another source that tries to make some style a thing. Like the neumorphism which seemed to be most popular on sites with mock-up designs rather than in actual implementations. I've yet to see either that or neobrutalism in the wild.

hnbad 5y ago
I was also surprised to see "glassmorphism" dropped without further elaboration like that. While neumorphism was certainly popular on mock-up designs (i.e. something designers enjoyed toying with for a while), "glassmorphism" just looks like acrylic taken to the extreme and acrylic is everywhere -- except it's used as a design element rather than as the foundation of an entire style. I guess the site is biased as saying something is a trend means you can make more money off teaching designers to emulate it.