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Quick tangent: Does anybody know why many new companies have this exact web design style? Is it some new UI framework or other recent tool? The design looks sle

Quick tangent: Does anybody know why many new companies have this exact web design style? Is it some new UI framework or other recent tool? The design looks sleek, but they all appear so similar.

bearjaws 2y ago
My sad millennial take is: We're in the brain rot era, if a piece of content doesn't have immediate animation / video and that "wowww" sound byte nobody pays attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2ROiFUZ6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2ROiFUZ6w
- stevenpetryk 2y ago
  My happy millennial take is that browsers have made strides in performance and flexibility, and people are utilizing that to build more complex and dynamic websites. Simplicity and stillness can be beautiful, and so can animations. Enjoying smooth animations and colorful content isn’t brain rot imo.
  - whyslothslow 2y ago
    It may be unpopular, but my opinion is that web pages must not have non-consensual movement. I’ll begrudgingly accept a default behavior of animations turned on, but I want the ability to stop them. I want to be able to look at something on a page without other parts of the page jumping around or changing form while I’m not giving the page any inputs. For some of us, it’s downright exhausting to ignore all the motion and focus on the, you know, actual content. And I hate that this seems to be the standard for web pages these days. I realize this isn’t particularly realistic or enforceable. But one can dream.
    - mnahkies 2y ago
      For sites that have paid enough attention to accessibility you might be able to configure our browser/OS such that this media query applies https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... - it's designed to encourage offering low motion alternatives
    - washadjeffmad 2y ago
      I've seen some site behaviors "rediscovered" lately that have both grated and tickled me because it's apparent the designers are too young to have been a part of the conversations from before the Web was Won. They can't fathom what a world without near infinite bandwidth, low latency and load times, and disparate hardware and display capabilities with no graphical acceleration looks like, or why people wouldn't want video and audio to autoplay, or why we don't do flashing banners. They think they're distinguishing themselves using variations on a theme, wowing us with infinitely scrolling opuses when just leaving out the crap would do. I still aim to make everything load within in a single packet, and I'll happily maintain my minority position that that's the true pinnacle of web design.
lcolucci 2y ago
Do you mean on the infinity.ai site or studio.infinity.ai? On infinity.ai we just wanted something fast and easy. This is MagicUI
sidneyprimas 2y ago
It's much easier to use standard CSS packages, and these come with more standard styles. Our team doesn't have much experience building websites, so we just went with the standard styles. We used TailwindCSS.
ricardobeat 2y ago
Designers today are largely driven by trends (just like engineering?). Being cool = jumping on the latest bandwagon, not being unique or better. The good news is this particular style is pretty much restricted to tech companies, I think it started with https://neon.tech https://neon.tech a few years ago or a similar startup. Incidentally, the same behaviour is seen in academia. These websites for papers are all copying this one from 2020: https://nerfies.github.io/ https://nerfies.github.io/

Quick tangent: Does anybody know why many new companies have this exact web design style? Is it some new UI framework or other recent tool? The design looks sleek, but they all appear so similar.

bearjaws 2y ago

My sad millennial take is: We're in the brain rot era, if a piece of content doesn't have immediate animation / video and that "wowww" sound byte nobody pays attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2ROiFUZ6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2ROiFUZ6w

stevenpetryk 2y ago
My happy millennial take is that browsers have made strides in performance and flexibility, and people are utilizing that to build more complex and dynamic websites. Simplicity and stillness can be beautiful, and so can animations. Enjoying smooth animations and colorful content isn’t brain rot imo.
- whyslothslow 2y ago
  It may be unpopular, but my opinion is that web pages must not have non-consensual movement. I’ll begrudgingly accept a default behavior of animations turned on, but I want the ability to stop them. I want to be able to look at something on a page without other parts of the page jumping around or changing form while I’m not giving the page any inputs. For some of us, it’s downright exhausting to ignore all the motion and focus on the, you know, actual content. And I hate that this seems to be the standard for web pages these days. I realize this isn’t particularly realistic or enforceable. But one can dream.
  - mnahkies 2y ago
    For sites that have paid enough attention to accessibility you might be able to configure our browser/OS such that this media query applies https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... - it's designed to encourage offering low motion alternatives
  - washadjeffmad 2y ago
    I've seen some site behaviors "rediscovered" lately that have both grated and tickled me because it's apparent the designers are too young to have been a part of the conversations from before the Web was Won. They can't fathom what a world without near infinite bandwidth, low latency and load times, and disparate hardware and display capabilities with no graphical acceleration looks like, or why people wouldn't want video and audio to autoplay, or why we don't do flashing banners. They think they're distinguishing themselves using variations on a theme, wowing us with infinitely scrolling opuses when just leaving out the crap would do. I still aim to make everything load within in a single packet, and I'll happily maintain my minority position that that's the true pinnacle of web design.

lcolucci 2y ago

Do you mean on the infinity.ai site or studio.infinity.ai? On infinity.ai we just wanted something fast and easy. This is MagicUI

sidneyprimas 2y ago

It's much easier to use standard CSS packages, and these come with more standard styles. Our team doesn't have much experience building websites, so we just went with the standard styles. We used TailwindCSS.

ricardobeat 2y ago

Designers today are largely driven by trends (just like engineering?). Being cool = jumping on the latest bandwagon, not being unique or better. The good news is this particular style is pretty much restricted to tech companies, I think it started with https://neon.tech https://neon.tech a few years ago or a similar startup. Incidentally, the same behaviour is seen in academia. These websites for papers are all copying this one from 2020: https://nerfies.github.io/ https://nerfies.github.io/