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Re creativity, Tailwind is an interesting social experiment of sorts. To be clear, I love it! But it does provide a window into how humans interact with creativ
by scop 2y ago
Re creativity, Tailwind is an interesting social experiment of sorts. To be clear, I love it! But it does provide a window into how humans interact with creativity. I recall first coming upon Tailwind after Bootstrap had thoroughly saturated the market and we could all name at least 10 bootstrap-looking sites. Then, suddenly...Utilities! Wow! Unique looking nav bars! Now I can make my own button! But then...fast forward five years and there is definitely a "tailwind" style that has coalesced via the "hot" players/designers (tailwind itself, Vercel, etc).
Even with a tool that should foster creativity we often gather around something familiar/known. That makes perfect sense psychologically and I'm not here to say that that's dumb. For example, I love creativity but detest modern architecture as it strays too far from the "known" and becomes meaningless. I need to know where to look to find a bathroom for goodness sake.
I guess my point is that a tool that allows for or even fosters creativity does not by any means actually result in said creativity.