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Wow. This article spends a lot of real estate making an argument, but provides little proof to support it. The problem is I personally disagree with the premi

Wow. This article spends a lot of real estate making an argument, but provides little proof to support it. The problem is I personally disagree with the premise. I don't think that so called "vibe shifts" happen based on the parameters described here. It's like when Apple shifted from skeuomorphism to flat/minimalist design. One could argue that minimalistic design is much easier and readily available. But it took Apple to make this creative shift for the masses to follow. Maybe DALL-E and others will make it easy to hire some in Fiverr to produce spades of high quality art for your startup. That works for the copycats. But the trend setters will keep moving according to the same rules.

greiskul 5y ago
> But it took Apple to make this creative shift for the masses to follow. Android was doing flat design 2 years before Apple did.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  Many people were doing flat design before Apple did. Scott Forstall famously loved skeuomorphic interfaces. When Apple Maps-gate got him fired, Jony Ive took over software UX design and commanded that everything be flat to match the hardware aesthetic. Apple’s switch to flat design was purely about internal politics and was disconnected from the external design world which had been using these idioms for quite some time.