WEB DESIGN BECAME
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- clearThoughts
Stale, Humorless and more than anything BORING.
I call for a revolution before Mobile App completely kill the Internet Stars!
Sorry for the lame rant, it's Monday morning and I realize all the projects I am working on look the fucking same!!!!
Even if I present 10 different concepts it always makes same to go for the same very usable boring stuff
:(
- clearThoughts0
*Mobile Apps
- set0
I disagree. Creating new and interesting responsive designs is an inspiring new direction for web design.
- clearThoughts0
Responsive Design is like when people where getting excited about Usability and Validating a HTML page...
- *wereclearThoughts
- Yeh, it's one more sentence in your skills section, and about 10 hrs of dev. Nothing exciting to really help sell a client tho..mikotondria3
- albums0
clearly, you've not learned to express yourself as well as you believe your thoughts
this is nothing more than a pity party from a jaded semi-professional.
buttons > images > text
oh my shit all these fucking magazines look the same, newspapers look the same
industry standards what?
lol
- same old negative shit streaming out of you. bore offfadein11
- clearThoughts0
LOL @albums Well, no need to be aggressive. What makes you think I'm a semi professional??
I am a well established professional and did very well designing very large sites.Somehow I feel the web design community has become incredibly close minded. Maybe because it is such an Engineering lead industry....
Magazines DO NOT LOOK THE SAME, and in terms of visual design I still see a lot more innovation in nice print publications than online.
- You realize pretty quickly albums is a miserable asshole in every thread. Ignore him.CygnusZero4
- truth hurts.albums
- albums0
That engineering you're complaining about is what is working hard so you can have your "Magazines DO NOT LOOK THE SAME" attitude, because yes they do.
Trendy fonts + trendy colors + trendy photos of trendy fashion & full page ads in the middle of the article
"Trendy" used as an industry term because I understand the formula so visually they may differ in subject matter for which target market they're aimed at but in the end the format is identical from highlights to marie claire to playboy
- maikel0
Think of websites as you would of furniture or even clothes.
Most business know that 'Ikea' quality is enough for them, so unless you are amazon (where you expect to make money THROUGH your website) you will not invest that much.
A few years ago all editorial designers had to learn the new 'where the money is' and started doing websites. Now you got roughly the same thing about apps and mobility-centred design.
In a couple of years' time I would be surprised if people use desktop computers at all, so I guess is time to start thinking about the fields that are showing some future.
mobility didn't killed internet stars. they are just the new mobile media stars, and the ones who aren't (and still think they can be starts) are probably obsolete.
- desktop isn't going to die. Mobile isn't gear toward productivity... and a lot of internet usage is at work.monNom
- clearThoughts0
@albums I think you clearly have a different sensibility than what I have.
I don't see visual design as trendy fonts + trendy colours + trendy photos but rather as a medium that can be used to transmit emotions.
When I look at Mobile Apps I can see people actually using more sophisticated layouts, more colour and much more advanced interaction design.
- albums0
You've posted art in a conversation I thought was about usability. Design I believe is the transfer of information without words. My personal use of color is much greater than my clients desires of me. you will notice most all large scale entities using a very calculated color palette while some are breaking out from it.(AOL & The city of Melbourne & Melbourne Museum come to mind ) There is a need to be accessible & recognizable in this slew of option if you want a brand to penetrate, saturate & root. The images you have provided are not design to communicate information, only artistic expression.
Don't get me wrong I like design/art when it's useful like Beatsurfing. interactive with purpose.
- animatedgif0
Just make them a Facebook page, get it signed off then kill yourself
- aes0
clearThoughts,
Don't present 10 ideas, ever.
Present one – the one you think works best.- And then you have 9 more to pass off to other clients that are less picky. Win.CygnusZero4
- which makes you a hack not concerned with clients needsalbums
- Yes, not what I was getting at.aes
- d_rek0
While you're bitching about the state of the industry the rest of us are makin' bank.
- randommail0
I wholeheartedly agree with clearThoughts.
Web and mobile are first and foremost utilitarian. And usually that's where our patrons stop.
I believe great design is about reaching for the sublime. And sometimes utility doesn't have to be there. It can simply be about expression and connecting with the viewer. Yes, even for commercial art.
This is why I try to stay medium-agnostic.
- randommail0
And to add, I loved the days of Flash actually. Not because of everything it accomplished in a few years, but where it could have continued going.
Websites, serving as communication tools, but also a medium where web designers could constantly created something new, much like print designers. This was almost expected from clients.
- obsolete0
I think that customers don't want to take chances anymore...
I guess it is back to websites like praystation where you would show experiments to customers to make them exited,,,
- chrisRG0
it's really been odd times, i've been thinking about that for a while, everything is boring.
anyways, I guess I am kinda lucky, cos I'm doing some nice projects lately, most of them still Flash tho.
- chrisRG0
well, I just posted about the new gizmodo.com, it's a clear example of what's going on.
- tank020
I'm guessing you are talking about media rich sites like HiRes & Big spaceship used to make?