Was minimalism a mistake?
Was minimalism a mistake?
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Brandon Martinez
No. Ugly, lazy and incoherent design is.
William Ortiz
No matter how bland things get, it'll never be as bad as the glass/skeumorphic/web2.0 era.
Adrian Davis
Looks better than flat design we have today.
Lucas Nelson
only if done shit like that
material design raises the ceiling for ux
Elijah Ward
XP was the peak design, but vista was close
Tyler Cooper
They days of bespoke skeumorphism were a mess. There were like 3 websites that actually looked good and everything else looked like a church flyer.
Jason Jones
No. Every piece of information in this pic pops out and is easy to find. That's the entire purpose of UX.
We need less cluttered UIs.
Ryan Hill
This, flat design is boring but this was just retarded
Brayden Martin
that unironically looks 10x better than OP pic
Elijah Cook
Windows classic mode was peak usability. The only element missing was vsync to eliminate screen tearing.
Benjamin Long
yeah those teens with their iphones and with their T-mobile subscription
Jose Davis
This nigga knows.
Hunter Long
oof i remember this brings me back. That was a terrible time for design
Camden Turner
Remember back when OSX Panther was considered cutting edge UI design?
Luis Brown
I know I'm nostalgia sick because I really love some of these old desktop screenshots (pic is Windows ME, my first OS)
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Evan Long
Alright fine.
A widget is a viewport for an application.
An application is something that networks with some form of storage device, like a hard drive.
Kevin Rodriguez
how is that minimalism when search is enabled?
chrome
opera
search feature doesn't even work lol. also it pings microsoft to report you are online
xp takes far less resources in a vm. never go online with it though
Ethan Stewart
Minimalism and material design are two very different things.
No, XP always looked like shit.
Camden Price
This is best era of graphic design since the 50s
Liam Green
The Y2K aesthetic is hard to implement in a UI, but it's still my favorite era.
Connor Cook
Remember when 1GB was a lot of RAM? No shit, times change.
Brayden Cooper
minimalism is hipster shit. I miss more rounded or aesthetic designs. I have the same issue with modern architecture.
Brandon Stewart
I unironically like the glass look
Oliver Murphy
Aero > flat transparency, I'll give you that.
Nathan Turner
Minimalism is fine if done right. OP image is an example of it done poorly
>random ordering of seemingly unrelated elements
>nothing stands out as the "important" element
>no difference between clickable and non-clickable elements
>3 unique colors, but they are used randomly
Flat design in a user interface is a mistake.
MacOS 9 and Win2000 were peak UI.
William Ward
Aero might have been polarizing, but you have to admit it has way more soul without trying than Material ever could.
Grayson Nelson
Those thick edges and overuse of shadows are what killed it for me in retrospective
But I loved the glossy feeling that it had
Zachary Lee
I reall didn't care. It could have looked better but it was functional. What I didn't like was the demand on lower-end systems.
This shit on the other hand is infuriating. We used to use words to tell people what things did. Now we just use heiroglyphics that 80% of users don't understand. The only way to learn apple is to google every little task you want to do. It's fucking horrible.
Liam Thomas
The first OS I managed to install by myself, from booting from a floppy disk, to installing drivers and shit. Good memories.
(ME was crap, but at least for me it was didactic crap)
Wyatt Long
Oh boy, a Game of Thrones reference! I noticed that!
Jeremiah White
Light mode fluent looks a lot like classic windows for me.
I honestly dig it.
Jace Edwards
You call it minimalist, but every webpage designed like thats lags like shit.
Ryan Baker
Not really.
Overly bright themes being a thing for nearly ten fucking years sure wasn't fun, though. I'm glad that's dying down. Even Facebook is getting a dark theme. Google has a dark theme out of the box now, so does the Pixel. Most Android phones have dark theming built in now. This injustice is finally being cleansed.
William Anderson
What the fuck am I looking at?
Justin Reyes
do you remember spb mobile shell for winmo
i was unironically all about that shit in 07
Thomas Gomez
Yes
Jackson Anderson
It depends, if the data is clickable to display more information then it's ok.
Jeremiah Myers
Ah man, that was the shit! I miss my ipod touch 4 so much... What ios version was that, like 5? Those days
I wish someone did an homage theme for android with those icons
Adrian King
lol just googled this.
maybe deviantart's interface category had more of an impact on culture than we think. Unironically a little amazed by this wreckage
Jason Allen
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Austin Sanchez
aero was peak design
all downhill from there
Landon Jones
Nathan Cooper
c o z y
David Green
marry kill fuck
Wyatt Barnes
It's still a thing, just flat.
Hunter Cook
Soulless
Soul
Liam Bailey
you might not like it, but this is what peak user experience looks like
Easton Clark
this is way worse though
Sebastian Scott
And it looks great when done right, problem is W10 insists on having a shit ton of padding everywhere just to make it usable on touch screens.
Andrew Bailey
those scrollbars are fucking ugly. otherwise pretty nice imo
Jonathan Sanchez
True. It was peak usability, but unlike flatshit it actually looks good.
Michael Ward
The scrollbars are by far the best. The texture stays in place, but the scrollbar still moves. Stills don't do it justice.
Daniel Flores
Yeah I like that particular effect but they stand out too much, scrollbars shouldn't be so visually loud
Jaxon Lopez
You could make them grey, but I tend to agree. Current OS X is godawful with that transparency iCandy. Can be disabled tho. OS X is dead anyway, it's an OS from a bank nowadays. Who the fuck trusts a bank outside of murrica? Nobody in their right mind does.
Luke Morgan
>this is considered bad by zoomers
Liam Anderson
US AND THEMSS! IT'S THEMSSS FAULTSSS!!!!! THE OTHERS SAID IT!!!1