Your complaint b) seems to apply to everything recommended by the uxmovement.com site. This is interesting to me because of things like the infamous '41 shades

Your complaint b) seems to apply to everything recommended by the uxmovement.com site. This is interesting to me because of things like the infamous '41 shades of blue' at Google: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html