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No offence since this is not directly related to bootstrap, but the default example theme is a good example of a style that seems to be gaining popularity and i

by wyck 12y ago

No offence since this is not directly related to bootstrap, but the default example theme is a good example of a style that seems to be gaining popularity and is completely garbage. Websites (generally) are meant to be read and optimized for digesting data in a meaningful way, they are not an exercise in animation and moving everything into a confusing mess of eyeball soup. Web designers, would you build a doorway on a house that constantly moves...? Please stop building web sites where everything animates into place, it's a horrible trend.

andrewliebchen 12y ago
You realize a website is fundamentally different than the front door of a house?
- wyck 12y ago
  That's a silly thing to say, really. I will elaborate on my point in case you missed it, form should follow function, this principle applies to architecture just as much as a website. The case with the current trend of animating everything into place reminds me of "Ornament and Crime" which is another architectural idea that can be equally applied to a website. To be blunt, it simply means stop animating/decorating shit into place for effect, it is meaningless and a disservice to real design.
  - andrewliebchen 12y ago
    The analogy is silly. Of course you wouldn't design a door that "constantly moves" but you might design a door that slowly revealed itself as you moved through an architectural experience. And besides, a website is not a door. Certainly, there is good animation and bad animation. Animation for animation's sake in web design is bad. Animation that helps a user manage attention, removes unnecessary affordance until it's needed, delights its user, underscores contextual importance, and/or communicates system action can be good. It's funny that you bring up Loos, because I think he might agree with me here: >My architecture is not conceived by drawings, but by spaces. I do not draw plans, facades or sections… For me, the ground floor, first floor do not exist… There are only interconnected continual spaces, rooms, halls, terraces… Each space needs a different height… These spaces are connected so that ascent and descent are not only unnoticeable, but at the same time functional Says Loos himself.

by wyck 12y ago

andrewliebchen 12y ago

You realize a website is fundamentally different than the front door of a house?

wyck 12y ago
That's a silly thing to say, really. I will elaborate on my point in case you missed it, form should follow function, this principle applies to architecture just as much as a website. The case with the current trend of animating everything into place reminds me of "Ornament and Crime" which is another architectural idea that can be equally applied to a website. To be blunt, it simply means stop animating/decorating shit into place for effect, it is meaningless and a disservice to real design.
- andrewliebchen 12y ago
  The analogy is silly. Of course you wouldn't design a door that "constantly moves" but you might design a door that slowly revealed itself as you moved through an architectural experience. And besides, a website is not a door. Certainly, there is good animation and bad animation. Animation for animation's sake in web design is bad. Animation that helps a user manage attention, removes unnecessary affordance until it's needed, delights its user, underscores contextual importance, and/or communicates system action can be good. It's funny that you bring up Loos, because I think he might agree with me here: >My architecture is not conceived by drawings, but by spaces. I do not draw plans, facades or sections… For me, the ground floor, first floor do not exist… There are only interconnected continual spaces, rooms, halls, terraces… Each space needs a different height… These spaces are connected so that ascent and descent are not only unnoticeable, but at the same time functional Says Loos himself.