> Cause it feels like many people's tastes come from the 80s/early 90s, with the idea that any sort of visual flourish or attempt at readability is completely i

> Cause it feels like many people's tastes come from the 80s/early 90s, with the idea that any sort of visual flourish or attempt at readability is completely irrelevant. > And it makes me wonder why this is. Why do so many... hacker type individuals seem to prefer very brutalist, utilitarian designs over anything more fancy? Where did this preference for plain text at the expense of all else come from anyway? I don't mind decoration, as long as it doesn't get in the way of using the thing. The reason I prefer "80s/early 90s" UX is that it tended to be more "information dense" -- packing as much on the screen as possible rather than spoonfeeding tiny amounts padded with ever-increasing whitespace. Some of that might be a happy artifact of designing for much smaller screens than we have today, but I'll take it. Also, at some point, change stops being an improvement and turns into change for change's sake.