Worst Design Trends 2010
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- brodster0
this one should top the list - hands down
- Rob220
http://www.katemoross.com/
"I am a 24 year old London based creative. I run ISO & Isomorph Records which you can read about here. I have a fascination with three sided shapes, illegible typography, and freeform lettering."For some reason this annoys me greatly.
- akrok0
"Designers still using Apple products to screen their designs,"
agree but i rather not see they swap it with HP, etc.
- tOki0
infographics /wrists
- grafician0
Designers still using Apple products to screen their designs, that "authentic" style, Gotham&lookalike typefaces, web designers hatin' Flash, social networks (will Apple buy Facebook in 2011?!) and the whole social media frenzy, "disco" design (triangles, galaxies, stars, 3d shapes and that hipster crap - forms without function), big fucking type (h1 titles half the screen with 2 more liiiiiiitle paragraphs calling that web design?! pleease!), crappy wordpress sites&themes (actually there are maybe 10-20 WP designs in the wild and for each of those something like 1 million alternatives in 10000 colors with different buttons, but the main layouts are the same!), designers calling themselves "gurus" or "ninjas" - come on people, design is thinking, so in 2011 let's see more thinking and doing and less pretending to be designers :)
- you write like a ninja. lol.akrok
- designers calling themselves graficians
;)Amicus - ....and run on sentences....lilredschwinn
- loljetSkii
- monNom0
things I hope will die:
site surveys. especially when you're about 2 clicks into the website.
pop-over ads. nobody is interested in your special offer, don't bother.
criteo banners. (backcountry.com) STOP FOLLOWING ME!
Flash sites, done is HTML5. new platform, hasn't solved anything.
- abettertomorrow0
Stop linking to stuff. Focus on your own shit.
- Anders0
Less New, More Interesting.
- brandon_phillip0
PR folks who think social media marketing plans are a good idea. Why don't they also just invent more marketing fluff/bullshit/crap that no one ever reads or gives 2 cents about?
- antimotion0
I'm not a web designer, so I don't know how to refer to them, but - those ads on sites that grow, sort of expand. I always have to search for the little "x" to turn that stuff off/close... Pop Down ads maybe?
- YES!
like movie trailers and shit.Hombre_Lobo_2 - pop-up.akrok
- YES!
- cannonball19780
One that I'm glad that is gone is adding "Hello" to the front or back of your god damn fucking company name. Fuck you if you do that.
- cannonball19780
The concept of "service design"
- Hombre_Lobo_20
people passing off wordpress templates as there own design -
http://j3design.com/BAD TREND.
- BAMmoIdero
- BAM! lol, futurama chef (elzar?) style!Hombre_Lobo_2
- mcmillions0
this is a trend in video, not a trend in design, but I want OK GO to fucking die before they release another MV, or so help me god I am bombing youtube offices.
- really just needed to get that out of my system.mcmillions
- yes... OK GO is rather annoying...vaxorcist
- OK Go exists for catchy videos (to some people) and shitty music (for everyone)mg33
- OSFA0
Funny thing is most clients will actually 'discover' all these by mid-2011 and think they are the hottest trends and will demand them on projects. meaning... most of us will be stuck doing them for another 6 months at least...
- +100000
make it pop!!!!!Hombre_Lobo_2 - kinda like Flash, people were sooo into that. "I want things to move!!!"k_temp
- +100000
- Douglas0
- yeah, getting really stale I think... I think it has to do with our current state - we seem to want instant gratification...antimotion
- Like a quick laugh on youtube or something. maybe due to our generation growing up with iconography - we know "things" by logo and interpret things that way...antimotion
- via logo and interpret the "whole" in that fashion...antimotion
- autoflavour0
hardcore pornography .. there needs to be more