Corporate Memphis, and Iโll get ahead of the curve, whatever its successor is. Probably some kind of AI-chic.
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I suspect Corporate Memphis is partly successful because it works with ambiguous skin colours, so it automatically ticks diversity boxes without the artist having to think too hard about representation.
My prediction is that the successor will double down on that. I hope it's cartoony style anthropomorphic animals.
Milano mepphis was one of the last hurrah of post modern. A decent trend at least. Corporate Memphis is an abomination. Itโs like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. Itโs not wrong but lack of character and conviction is such a bore.
FUCKING MATERIAL DESIGN AND ALL IT'S RELATIVES!
FUCK YOU, WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SHIT.
I don't mind that someone designed it, but the people who decided that it would the new standard and the ONLY standard design should be shot. In the legs. And left to bleed out on a raft above a shark tank.
Thank you! this mental image was like cold balm on my soul.
I shall cherish it. :)
Why so much purple? Always. This shit is so tired.
Didn't like material design prior to Material 3 very much
Interrupted garden paths. Like stepping stones in lawn. Just put a continual path. Stepping stones are terrible for access and maintenance. Just grass or just paving would be preferable.
AI
The home, back, and switch app buttons on Android being replaced with that bar like on the iPhone.
I especially miss the back button, swiping from the edge of the screen is nowhere near as ergonomic. It also replaced the ability to reveal the side panel by swiping from the left edge, so now you have to tap the hamburger menu way up at the top left corner of the screen for it, which requires either your other hand or you have to shimmy the phone down your hand until you can reach it.
Also, when you have a full screen video playing, you have to swipe up once to reveal the bar, and then again to actually close out of the app. That made sense with buttons but why the hell is it still the case with the bar?
Double tapping the switch app button to switch between the two most recent apps was also more convenient than swiping up to reveal the app manager and dragging the window to the right, and when you want to go to the previous app, whether it's on the right or left side of the current one seems to depend on how long you've been on the app for, which means you can never build up muscle memory since it changes all the time.
Another case of Google trying to imitate Apple's UX but seemingly not actually doing any of the usability testing and polishing that Apple does, and generally making it both worse than Apple's implementation and worse than what was there before.
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I used to be able to point to ling's cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they've changed v.v
https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/
- lights on everything
- diagonal house, what are you even doing?
- Increased phone power matched by increased surveillance and advertising
- hats not having an extra space to remove sweat and warm sticky air. Bring back lifted asian conical hats!
- App and website having different functionality, and you have to use the app
Whatโs a diagonal house? I image searched it but still not clear.
Slanted house, apparently. Just taking up extra space and annoying to place furniture.
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- houses designed as if they were some private plastic surgeon's office;
- neopentec churches with black walls.
Flat pack furniture. Everything being reduced to the cheapest to make and cheapest to ship.