Themes are shit
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- cramdesign0
Are you talking about google mail themes specifically or wordpress themes or design in general? Or maybe decoration in general? Certainly there are some shitty themes/designs out there but theming or designing is not necessarily shit. Your statement is a bit poorly phrased but has enough lunacy to at least be interesting.
- BattleAxe0
I am using on Theme on Chrome
- neverblink0
Themes are the logical progression of the separation of content from design.
- indeed.********
- yes, it's all form but it should be all content / function. Style is fine I think - different from theme.Atkinson
- indeed.
- ukit0
In some ways I think themes could be viewed as an intermediate step between a world where everyone can design their own shit.
- Atkinson0
I'm still here, had to sleep, sorry.
I'm talking about all themes. Wordpress, google etc etc. Thing with wordpress is that it needs a 'theme' to work. Indexhibit works for me because it's simple, clutterless. I realise it can be themed and there are some awful examples of this, but for the most part people have taken the 'indexhibit ethos' and used it.
I just like simple things, the new ipod shuffle or MBP are good examples. A tea spoon, cork screw etc. Things that work without fuss. An Aiwa hifi has 10000000 knobs / buttons on it that do next to nothing, spoiling the form. I'm ranting now but that's what I meant I think!
- TheBlueOne0
I think you are confusing repeatability and minimalism and style with themes?
Your work is decidedly messy, anti-grid, etc. and I hate to tell you this, it all seems to fit into a consistent "theme".
Theme to me is just a system of organizing a particular design for utilitarian and ease of reproduction across an entire product.
As for the reliance on "themes" by the end-user while they are thinking it's some sort of "customization" - whether it's a CMS theme, or a set of products to "customize" their Honda Civic, well I agree with you, but that's a marketing issue really and not a utilitarian use of a thematic concept.
- I should just go back to posting clever, pithy pictures, shouldn't I?TheBlueOne
- Atkinson0
customisation and style and theme are all different things. I see a theme as almost a ready-made that slots onto, or fits into etc. Style is needed otherwise all of one thing would look the same. Customisation can be good, I just can't think of any examples! Minimalism is all together different I think. Minimalism is a way of life rather than part of a particular thing. Themes, style and customisation can be minimal however!
- TheBlueOne0
Well you say "style" and "theme" are different things, and then say you like simple things like ipods and spoons, but not things with lots of buttons. iPods are reproduction based on a theme, ditto even something as minimalistic and utilitarian as a spoon. So I'm not really following your argument or definitions behind the words you are using for distinctions between such.
If you said you liked handmade wooden spoons, each with it's own grain and shape, etc...then I'd say "cool" but to say you like mass produced spoons or iPods built on a templates and then say you hate "themes" I'm not really following...
- Jnr_Madison0
Meth habit?
- ********0
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Themes are an admission of a bad designer, thats why Windows has themes and Mac OS doesn't because the Mac OS designers are confident enough in their choices to know its well designed.