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I really find the whole situation here fascinating: 1. Clearly cares. Does great work. 2. Industry is like "damn this guy does great work, do ours". 3. Consu
by grensley 4y ago
I really find the whole situation here fascinating:
1. Clearly cares. Does great work.
2. Industry is like "damn this guy does great work, do ours".
3. Consumers get used to the style. Begins to become a standard.
4. Becomes an expectation, almost like a seal of approval. "This is a ski resort".
- caseyohara 4y agoIt's an excellent example of trends feeding consumer expectations feeding trends. It's a self-fulfilling cycle. I think it's the same reason why marketing websites for many SaaS products all look very similar. A product like Stripe with a very nice marketing site becomes successful, many other companies follow suit and copy the style. The style becomes ubiquitous. "This is a SaaS product website". The same could be said about a lot of consumer products...cars, laptops, phones, food packaging, even art and music. There's so much stylistic homogeneity. Obviously part of it is fashion, but what is fashion except consumer expectation?
- atorodius 4y agoIn architecture this is called typology IIUC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_(urban_planning_and_architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_(urban_planning_and_a... Ie you can tell sth is a school just because of how it looks
- nazka 4y agoAll these comments is why I like HN. Thanks!