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Fashion trends are currently rebelling against the understated 2010s by bringing the late 90s/early 2000s aesthetic back in the form of wider fits and louder co

by nluken 4y ago

Fashion trends are currently rebelling against the understated 2010s by bringing the late 90s/early 2000s aesthetic back in the form of wider fits and louder colors. Makes me wonder if/when we might see a similar change in web design, or even furniture. I might be biased as a younger person without many memories from that era, but I'm all for some change (barring impacts to accessibility) if it breaks up the monotony of the corporate-lite graphic design trends of the mid 2010s.

jedberg 4y ago
> by bringing the late 90s/early 2000s aesthetic back in the form of wider fits and louder colors. I'm just glad my college clothes will be back in style again, right as my daughter gets old enough to care what her dad is wearing.
TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I'm just holding out for buttons that look like you can click them. Bring back Windows 95
- bovermyer 4y ago
  Skeuomorphism is awesome, and I'm absolutely making chunky, clickable buttons in a site design I'm working on.
- acidburnNSA 4y ago
  I've been building a virtual replica of my 1996 gateway 2000 in an 86Box VM. I am amazed at how good the Windows 95 UI feels. I also want to get screensavers and system sounds going on my Linux workstation.
- cronix 4y ago
  And the opposite; NOT making things look like buttons that aren't actually clickable.
- thrown_22 4y ago
  At this point I don't even care what it looks like. Flat can work just as well as not flat as long as it's consistent. A stop sign is the definition of flat: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/STOP_sign.jpg/1280px-STOP_sign.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/ST... but it has a border which separates it from the rest of the world. If it were a button when you've clicked it once you will know where it is and how big it is. Random text with no differentiation from the rest of the page is a big reason why I've lost the habit of clicking hyperlinks. If it doesn't look like it will do something I will assume it does nothing.
- nebalee 4y ago
  It's funny, real buttons on devices that look and feel like buttons are on the retreat with almost everything using touch controls nowadays. So the flat and featureless buttons of modern GUIs increasingly reflect the UIs of the physical world.
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hackernewds 4y ago
So trade functionality for fashion? Hard pass.
- hashishen 4y ago
  found the microsoft guy
kradeelav 4y ago
re: 90's / 200's design style in websites ... check out neocities. there's a recent surge in people creating personal sites with exactly that aesthetic / nostalgia in mind.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  First one I clicked on had auto-play music. No thank you, I'm glad that trend died and it's a shame if it's coming back.
noobermin 4y ago
People's nostalgia for the 90s is really because it was the so-called "end of history" era, where the USSR fell and the US had no real enemies and everything seemed to be looking better. Then 9/11 happened and you had the Iraq war and then 2008. It's only in retrospect after that time that people think "hey, the 90s were actually pretty idyllic and peaceful." Hindsight is 20/20, etc etc. As for why zoomers are now into the 90s, I think there is some picked up nostalgia from millennials around the 90s by osmosis, kind of like how there was some nostalgia for the 70s in the early 00s, limited as it was for millennials, which I think was about the time the boomers first had their midlife crisis (fits somewhat for now I think).
- taneq 4y ago
  Don't people feel nostalgic for the ~30 years ago in every decade? In the early '00s we were into the '70s, not the '90s. And the '80s were the decade that everyone tacitly agreed never happened, right up until a few years ago when they started making a comeback. I think it's just because that's how long it takes between the invention of a trend or style, and the majority of people not remembering a time when that was 'the new awful thing that the youth of today are doing'.
- kirillzubovsky 4y ago
  It you haven’t seen it, take a look at a movie called “Midnight in Paris.” It does a great job highlighting how each generation find the past to be somehow better than current.
rchaud 4y ago
If folding phones take off (still too expensive for most), I could see wider web designs coming back, closer to desktop. One huge problem with responsive design, especially mobile-first design, is that it largely killed the creativity of the old desktop web. Nobody is going to spend time developing 2 unique designs for 2 form factors. Everybody will go with the easiest option of RWD which is to stack elements on top of each other in the most boring layout possible.

by nluken 4y ago

jedberg 4y ago

> by bringing the late 90s/early 2000s aesthetic back in the form of wider fits and louder colors. I'm just glad my college clothes will be back in style again, right as my daughter gets old enough to care what her dad is wearing.

TakeBlaster16 4y ago

I'm just holding out for buttons that look like you can click them. Bring back Windows 95

bovermyer 4y ago
Skeuomorphism is awesome, and I'm absolutely making chunky, clickable buttons in a site design I'm working on.
acidburnNSA 4y ago
I've been building a virtual replica of my 1996 gateway 2000 in an 86Box VM. I am amazed at how good the Windows 95 UI feels. I also want to get screensavers and system sounds going on my Linux workstation.
cronix 4y ago
And the opposite; NOT making things look like buttons that aren't actually clickable.
thrown_22 4y ago
At this point I don't even care what it looks like. Flat can work just as well as not flat as long as it's consistent. A stop sign is the definition of flat: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/STOP_sign.jpg/1280px-STOP_sign.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/ST... but it has a border which separates it from the rest of the world. If it were a button when you've clicked it once you will know where it is and how big it is. Random text with no differentiation from the rest of the page is a big reason why I've lost the habit of clicking hyperlinks. If it doesn't look like it will do something I will assume it does nothing.
nebalee 4y ago
It's funny, real buttons on devices that look and feel like buttons are on the retreat with almost everything using touch controls nowadays. So the flat and featureless buttons of modern GUIs increasingly reflect the UIs of the physical world.

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hackernewds 4y ago

So trade functionality for fashion? Hard pass.

hashishen 4y ago
found the microsoft guy

kradeelav 4y ago

re: 90's / 200's design style in websites ... check out neocities. there's a recent surge in people creating personal sites with exactly that aesthetic / nostalgia in mind.

ModernMech 4y ago
First one I clicked on had auto-play music. No thank you, I'm glad that trend died and it's a shame if it's coming back.

noobermin 4y ago

People's nostalgia for the 90s is really because it was the so-called "end of history" era, where the USSR fell and the US had no real enemies and everything seemed to be looking better. Then 9/11 happened and you had the Iraq war and then 2008. It's only in retrospect after that time that people think "hey, the 90s were actually pretty idyllic and peaceful." Hindsight is 20/20, etc etc. As for why zoomers are now into the 90s, I think there is some picked up nostalgia from millennials around the 90s by osmosis, kind of like how there was some nostalgia for the 70s in the early 00s, limited as it was for millennials, which I think was about the time the boomers first had their midlife crisis (fits somewhat for now I think).

taneq 4y ago
Don't people feel nostalgic for the ~30 years ago in every decade? In the early '00s we were into the '70s, not the '90s. And the '80s were the decade that everyone tacitly agreed never happened, right up until a few years ago when they started making a comeback. I think it's just because that's how long it takes between the invention of a trend or style, and the majority of people not remembering a time when that was 'the new awful thing that the youth of today are doing'.
kirillzubovsky 4y ago
It you haven’t seen it, take a look at a movie called “Midnight in Paris.” It does a great job highlighting how each generation find the past to be somehow better than current.

rchaud 4y ago

If folding phones take off (still too expensive for most), I could see wider web designs coming back, closer to desktop. One huge problem with responsive design, especially mobile-first design, is that it largely killed the creativity of the old desktop web. Nobody is going to spend time developing 2 unique designs for 2 form factors. Everybody will go with the easiest option of RWD which is to stack elements on top of each other in the most boring layout possible.