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It was the style at the time. There are a lot of programs from that era with stupid, oversized nothing standard ui's, windows xp was a study in restraint compar
by somat 11mo ago
It was the style at the time. There are a lot of programs from that era with stupid, oversized nothing standard ui's, windows xp was a study in restraint compared to many applications. I think computers had just gotten powerful enough to have large bitmaps in the ui and the designers got a little crazy with their newfound power, as they tend to do. Our "modern" superflat look is probably the remnants of a reflexive recoil at all that excess. I expect it will start rebounding the other way in a few years as up and coming designers get nostalgic for their windows xp youth.
- dpark 11mo agoYes and no. XP’s default theme was hideous even at the time. The silver was fine as was the olive, but that blue was horrible. It was a product of its time, though. This was also the time of media players that used entirely custom skinning and mostly looked terrible (at least in retrospect).
- shmeeed 11mo ago> I expect it will start rebounding the other way in a few years as up and coming designers get nostalgic for their windows xp youth. cough Liquid Glass cough