gonna be hilarious once big tech suddenly decides ultra-reactionary hyper-skeu kai's power toolesque 3d textured interfaces are the new hot thing & every "designer" working today becomes incapable of competing with people in their 50's cause they never practiced illustration
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Replying to @AriaSalvatrice
what's the darkweb secret of where the flat ui look came from
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Replying to @OswaldHurlem
A lot of "moral imperative" discourse and a lot of jerking off at brutalism by people who wouldn't live in it, but mostly, the limitations of CSS2 on mobile devices. Also a ton of mediocre talentless white guys like this:pic.twitter.com/O2J3idUAnc
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Replying to @AriaSalvatrice
Did people really say there was a "moral imperative" to stop making the calculator look like a calculator? Dubious
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Replying to @OswaldHurlem @AriaSalvatrice
dreaming of the day MMOs get recognized as the apex of UX design
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They absolutely used the language of morality back then, but not as I quote it, it was layered in the language of usability and accessibility and branding by choosing the most unique hue of blue possible. Can't find a period article fully emblematic of the mood back then tho.
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Replying to @AriaSalvatrice
yeah i definitely remember some dullard Jonny Ive wannabe talking about Metro back in the day like it was absolutely going to make Windows usable for children... idk why everyone else took the bait
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Replying to @OswaldHurlem
any child who can't handle MS-DOS is a crypto-boomer
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i'm convinced that "brutalist web" isn't about the web, it's about rehabilitating authoritarian high modernism
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Replying to @riyenakshi @OswaldHurlem
LOOK AT HOW SIMPLE AND UNADORNED MY MONOCHROME HELVETICA SITE IS, THIS IS WHAT GOOD DESIGN IS (2.6MB of trackers downloaded, 400MB of RAM used by JS)
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