Desktop design and it's irrelevance.
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- docpoz
The internet has changed so much since I started using it. When I began everyone was on a desktop and there was more of an intellectual element to the net since it was mostly used by schools and businesses.
But now most people that are on the net access it with their phone and the design and content has dumbed down a lot to cater to the mainstream.
Statistics on my site have 90% of users accessing by smartphone or tablet.
When choosing a design I am prioritizing these mobile users and it is of course a less is more approach.
I guess what I am trying to say is that designing a website for the desktop is now more of a luxury than necessity and the UI's are reflective of this.
- lvl_130
welcome to 2014
- docpoz0
thanks. good to be back.
- freedom1
Statistics on your site have 90% of users accessing by smartphone or tablet? That seems high.
- freedom3
I wouldn't browse someone's portfolio or do much shopping on my phone.
- docpoz0
Yeah it hovers around 80-90%
- docpoz0
Watch computing... ugh.
We need to see if the platform is viable but at this rate it will be more relevant than desktop design.
If holographic UI's take off their implementation would maybe be more similar to mobile design than desktop also.
- freedom1
- "in the future?" ... too late. The future is now.chukkaphob
- I'm from the future; these will be animated soon.cbass99
- I proposed this for this site.yurimon
- docpoz0
You know Freedom, I kind of agree with that notion. Maybe a future where we return to iconography for language due to the death of literature and language is possible.
If we could cybernetically communicate ideas and imagery with each other through wifi we would not even need to speak.
- prophetone0
we're back to WAP
- docpoz0
Imagine language and literature becoming esoteric...
WILD.
- chukkaphob0
*its
- docpoz0
Great stats. Thanks for sharing.
- hotroddy0
Interesting comparison bw flash and browsers.
On side note:
Microsoft failed at the mobile app market and I think Microsoft is playing against apple by making their browser app friendly and trying to create an ecosystem through ms edge browser.
- Ben993
Internet has changed a lot in the last years. And all the social networks, particularly Facebook, changed A LOT of thing.
For many people the Internet is Facebook and Facebook is the Internet. With some stuff around it.
I dont know for you guys, but I'm still a desktop computer guy. I like sitting at my computer with my 2 big monitors and surf the Internet.
I don't surf the web on my iPhone, i totally hate it. I do surf the web on my iPad Mini, but I must admit I dont really like that. I feel i dont have the control on all I want.
And its true that websites and apps have a tendency to all look the same and/or respect certain schemes of design and look to please the masses.
There were WAY MUCH diversity back in the days for the look and design of websites.
Again... like the thread "Getting older and working in design" .... Maybe we're getting old and we're starting to think and talk like old farts nostalgic of the past.
- docpoz0
My post is so poorly written due to. I wish there was an editing function on QBN.
- inteliboy1
"the design and content has dumbed down a lot"
examples of great intelligent content and design from yesteryear?
rose tinted glasses I say.
- 2Advanced version 3: Prophecy. It was the James Joyce of internet sites.yuekit
- I agree, rose tinted...set
- Newstoday ;)docpoz
- Nope, there were some great sites back in the day, today 99% look almost identical.formed
- That's fine if you have good content, but again, 99% of sites don't.formed
- I used to like to visit a ton of sites just to see the creativity. Today? Zero.formed
- but there is so much more content out there, so much more trash, so much more gold.inteliboy
- though I love the idea of unsatisfied and bored designers - feels like there could be a new wave of "web" creativity about to unfold...inteliboy
- I happen to enjoy rose tinted shades very much thank you.docpoz
- You're looking in the wrong places. Lots of great, interesting and innovative sites out there.set
- bklyndroobeki0
- Blast from the past.freedom
- bad example. I can't read the content.docpoz
- "Desktop Publishing" tool from back in the day. Didn't mean to derail your thread.bklyndroobeki
- thats ok. is that os x 10.1?docpoz