I’m pretty sure that whenever someone refers to “modern design” they mean winamp 3 skins, which came in all kinds of crazy shapes. Your imagination was the limit. Well, that and any technical limitations it had.
“Modern design” somehow seems to mean “flat gray, bland logos, and simple block letters” to an unfortunate proportion of the marketing/design industry.
Like why do so many companies spend millions on rebranding to these dull husks of what they were? Do they think that’s going to convince people to spend more money there?
No one thinks “Oh look, Qdoba’s logo is much simpler and modern! I should eat there more often.” If anything it alienates the loyal customer base, like you see with the cracker barrel blowback (not that cracker barrel customers are worth their loyalty, but I digress).
Billionaire shareholders and C-suite corpos are so out-of-touch it’s not even funny…
That is a good definition. As an ex-website designer, I hate the new formats with their bloated flow and flashy appearance while the content is everywhere. Give me some tables and preloaded image sizes so the page loads fast and stops jumping all over the place.
And they all look the same. Maybe because everyone just grabs the same template and there aren’t any out there actually trying new looks.
YES! THANK YOU! I fucking hate these new website that look like they cost a million dollars to design, but they don’t function for crap, it’s hard to find the information I need, it jumps around while different “features” load, and keeps doing unexpected things while I scroll or hover over stuff.
Give me a nice, clear side bar with submenus that make it easy to find what I’m looking for, and pages that load quickly and behave statically until I click on something.
Fuck this emphasis on “modern” design. That’s just a bunch of self-fellating rich people getting off on marketing and sales pitches while ignoring user experience…
I cannot explain the amount of rage I experience when a website makes my scrollwheel do anything other than simply scrolling down, i.e. scrolling sideways or needlessly trying to do cool animations that just end up looking like shit
As a current web developer I’m with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.
I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic “just works / just here for the data” layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.
I know, divs are better, and I did use them once they came about. But tables were what you used back in the beginning, had to.
I appreciate responsive design, there’s some brilliant things out there. And I got out just as the whole smart phone thing started, and THAT was a nightmare that made the browser wars simple by comparison.
I remember tables, if you made the webpages in Publisher it would be tables all the way. I tought it was quite the thing back then, I guess 20-25 years ago?
No one seems to know exactly what “modern” means when it comes to “modern design”. If you ask ten different developers, you get 11 different answers.
My rule of thumb when I see “modern design” touted as a feature is that the developer chose form over function at every turn.
I’m pretty sure that whenever someone refers to “modern design” they mean winamp 3 skins, which came in all kinds of crazy shapes. Your imagination was the limit. Well, that and any technical limitations it had.
“Modern design” somehow seems to mean “flat gray, bland logos, and simple block letters” to an unfortunate proportion of the marketing/design industry.
Like why do so many companies spend millions on rebranding to these dull husks of what they were? Do they think that’s going to convince people to spend more money there?
No one thinks “Oh look, Qdoba’s logo is much simpler and modern! I should eat there more often.” If anything it alienates the loyal customer base, like you see with the cracker barrel blowback (not that cracker barrel customers are worth their loyalty, but I digress).
Billionaire shareholders and C-suite corpos are so out-of-touch it’s not even funny…
That is a good definition. As an ex-website designer, I hate the new formats with their bloated flow and flashy appearance while the content is everywhere. Give me some tables and preloaded image sizes so the page loads fast and stops jumping all over the place.
And they all look the same. Maybe because everyone just grabs the same template and there aren’t any out there actually trying new looks.
YES! THANK YOU! I fucking hate these new website that look like they cost a million dollars to design, but they don’t function for crap, it’s hard to find the information I need, it jumps around while different “features” load, and keeps doing unexpected things while I scroll or hover over stuff.
Give me a nice, clear side bar with submenus that make it easy to find what I’m looking for, and pages that load quickly and behave statically until I click on something.
Fuck this emphasis on “modern” design. That’s just a bunch of self-fellating rich people getting off on marketing and sales pitches while ignoring user experience…
I cannot explain the amount of rage I experience when a website makes my scrollwheel do anything other than simply scrolling down, i.e. scrolling sideways or needlessly trying to do cool animations that just end up looking like shit
“just use tailwind” or any of the premade shit. It’s everywhere. Everything looks the same. I hate it.
No one wants to design a website anymore. They just want to make one as fast as possible.
As a current web developer I’m with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.
I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic “just works / just here for the data” layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.
I know, divs are better, and I did use them once they came about. But tables were what you used back in the beginning, had to.
I appreciate responsive design, there’s some brilliant things out there. And I got out just as the whole smart phone thing started, and THAT was a nightmare that made the browser wars simple by comparison.
I remember tables, if you made the webpages in Publisher it would be tables all the way. I tought it was quite the thing back then, I guess 20-25 years ago?