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I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent
by abraxas 4mo ago
I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms and original Xerox/Parc research were abandoned in favour of web slop. So yeah, this is much more Web Slop than AI Slop. AI is just amplifying it.
- Retr0id 4mo agoContinuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/ https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/
- ghrl 4mo agoThat's refreshingly usable and not-slop-looking, nice additional style.
- vitalyan1234 4mo agoi love this so much it's unreal
- properbrew 4mo agoThis one works well. I think it's because there's no shine to it, it's just the data, what you need, right there without trying to fluff it all out with rounded edges and superfluous stuff.
- econ 4mo agoThe opposite, to change it into the modern version remove all borders and make all backgrounds the same color. That is how to make it uneasy on the eyes.
- shooly 4mo agoWhat? Do you not see all those borders and insets literally everywhere here?
- properbrew 4mo agoWell yes, but if I wanted a completely flat lifeless page I would just use excel and turn off borders.
- Gander5739 4mo agoFor some balance in the replies, I must say I find this rather hideous. To each their own, I suppose.
- slopinthebag 4mo agoUnironically the best one out of the lot. Man, we digressed so far from where we were...
- econ 4mo agoI fix some bugs here https://phpbb.go-here.nl https://phpbb.go-here.nl
- thewebguyd 4mo agoWow, that's immediately so much better than the others to the point its kind of sad. We've really went behind in terms of UX as an industry.
- unleaded 4mo agoI really wish CSS added an option to set font antialiasing and hinting. Would make all these old windows style websites look 1000x better.
- econ 4mo agoI use to make whole websites using system colors. The colors kept getting worse and eventually everyone hated it including myself.
- dofm 4mo agoOh man. I am a sort of pragmatic AI cynic and I wasn't even a fan of how Windows 98 looked but my heart just skipped a beat. What does it do if you suggest it looks like an OpenLook/XView/OpenWindows application? (That is where my heart really belongs) Doubt there's much in the training set...
- contextfree 4mo agoIt's really funny that it uses the Windows dotted-line focus rectangle as a stylistic signifier of "Windowsy thing" while having no idea what it's for.
- Retr0id 4mo agoHeh well there was a dashed border in the "original" version and I suppose it just made it the windows-y equivalent. I imagine it wouldn't have done the same if it was prompted from scratch. ("it" being Opus 4.8 btw)
- vunderba 4mo agoThere's an entire lightweight CSS lib around the Win9x look as well: https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ https://jdan.github.io/98.css/