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> Text is meant to be understood and quickly scanned. Websites are attempting a “canvas-style” design, generally better for conveying feeling, but for text, whi
by pintxo 2y ago
> Text is meant to be understood and quickly scanned. Websites are attempting a “canvas-style” design, generally better for conveying feeling, but for text, which is meant to convey meaning and immersion.
This might be, because lots of websites are not there to convey meaning but rather want to bring you in the right mood to do x. And it seems to be that humans - on average - can be far more easily brought into the right mood by manipulating `feelings` than through rational arguments.
- exe34 2y agoI think that's also why some politicians, who shall remain unnamed, are able to speak entire paragraphs of words that don't connect into logical sentences. They'll say all the right words - "great", "success", "prosperity", "safe", and also the other kinds of words "immigrants", "violence", etc, without actually committing to anything specific. I think the reason it works is the same reason poetry works - the sentences aren't meant to be English prose that can be parsed logically, but instead, meant to be verses that evoke certain emotions. it seems to work really well for getting elected.
- dylan604 2y agoIt's like the marketing department won. Who cares if there's a there there, just make everyone think there is.