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Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by igorstellar »

roywiggins wrote: post #84

So my takeaway is that after nearly two decades slumbering, the ol' bevel and emboss filter is finally back. Let's bring back shiny buttons next! https://tdarb.org/blog/aqua-ui-buttons.html

That is so nostalgic. Aero Glass and Aqua fall in very special time in our lives when technology was rapidly improving and becoming widespread.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by igorstellar »

Jaruzel wrote: post #74
lou1306 wrote: post #51

Actually the iOS1 home screen is... Not as skeuomorphic as it could have been? The Telephone, Mail, and SMS icons are all highly stylized. Plus, all icons have that rounded square frame that makes absolute sense for a touch-based UI, but is not skeuomophic at all . Maybe there's a lesson here, like "don't overdo it"? Also, this neumorphism/claymorphism thing gives off some strong Windows XP Luna [1] vibes, maybe it s…

In my opinion the XP Zune theme was the best of the bunch. I used to use it by default on all my XP machines back in the day. If I could make Windows 10 look like XP I would in a heartbeat.

Yep, still missing classic theme. But Metro apps takeover made everything obsolete.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by xwdv »

One thing I wish would become a trend is mainframe inspired UIs that have terminal like look and feel but with modern conveniences of clicking and dragging etc. Focused on efficiency and maximum data on screen. Not playful at all.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by dymk »

jmmcd wrote: post #23
aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #4

Until the next era of "super serious and not enough contrast" shows up. and so on

The author seems young (eg referring to early iphones as "early days")... so young they don't realise that this is all cyclic fashion.

The author points out that these design trends are cyclic.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by Enjaami »

giffarage wrote: post #55
woolion wrote: post #35

This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design. I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate. I have always not cared too much about aesthetics for any product where use is the primary factor -- especially since in most cases you can easily customize digital products -- but this trend is really putting me off to the point where I won't us…

We need much, much more childish things in life, not fewer.

Perhaps you mean childlike, not childish?

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by brimble »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #18
rjh29 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with UX is every single UX designer thinks they intuitively know what is best for users when studies show that to be completely false. So Google are right to listen to research instead. No UX design can please everyone.

Google also has some of the worst UX I have ever used. The only good one and the last one was google search homepage.

This was a while ago (years), but for a time, in gmail, if you tried to add a contact the form had an "add contact" button at the bottom that submitted your form and added the contact, and another identical button to the top right that... reset the form without submitting it, because it meant "start a form to add a new contact". I watched my grandma struggle with it, which was fun. But hey, at least they can solve leetcode hard.

More recently, I can confirm that material UI, especially when Google does it, confuses the absolute shit out of my parents.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by brimble »

dmitriid wrote: post #58
rjh29 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with UX is every single UX designer thinks they intuitively know what is best for users when studies show that to be completely false. So Google are right to listen to research instead. No UX design can please everyone.

If only they did any research. The moment they actually do it, their fantasies are immediately invalidated: https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...

I'd love to see them repeat that, but comparing Material to native Windows forms circa 2000. Or even default browser-styled forms with no modification aside from making it match the general layout of the Material one.

Re: Claymorphism: Will it stick around?

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Post by jamil7 »

woolion wrote: post #35

This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design. I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate. I have always not cared too much about aesthetics for any product where use is the primary factor -- especially since in most cases you can easily customize digital products -- but this trend is really putting me off to the point where I won't us…

At least we seem to have gotten out of the childish period of "oopsie doopsy" style 500 pages. Although I guess we're also in the everything is an SPA period where a website will just break in opaque ways you won't even see an error page.
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