Neubrutalism is taking over the web?
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Neubrutalism is taking over the web?
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#2Maybe we can inspire the next trend by referencing casino carpets, and further optimise down this road. /s
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#3Please, no. I mean, I'm ok some websites go this way, but overal, I preffer the cleanness of the flat style for most of the services.
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#4https://brutalistwebsites.com/ started in 2016; it has been a while. I would even say that proper web brutalism is not a thing anymore. It never become mainstream for real, because it was too bold.
I think a much better definition for the style described in the article is "Corporate Memphis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis - that is also a 10-year-long trend of colorful corporate soullessness.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec...
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#5The nomenclature is just wild... So concrete monoliths in architecture translate to high-contrast, colorful, fluffy graphic design?
I actually like the examples he has shown, looks a bit retro and futuristic at the same time.
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#6Luckily, I don't see this “taking over the web” at all. This looks like design created by people who aren't good at design.
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#7Is it tho?
The article cites only two examples: Figma and Gumroad. While Figma obviously has the potential to influence lots of designs by being a design tool, it also seems to match the style much less directly than Gumroad. And while Gumroad is apparently a great example, two off-mainstream sites are hardly enough to base such an extremely broad claim on.
Plus this style is not really new. It seems more like a rehash of a lot of elements of a style that came and went roughly a decade ago although at the time taking more inspiration from pop art and golden age comic strips (with trapezoids and bold angles) than the more toned down examples the article shows. There's no reason to assume "neobrutalism" will be more influential than "neo pop art" was at the time.
If anything, trends seem to be largely defined by boilerplate toolkits (twitter bootstrap at its time, material now) and OSes (especially iOS but Windows modern UI also had some influence for a while).
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#8Please, no. I mean, I'm ok some websites go this way, but overal, I preffer the cleanness of the flat style for most of the services.
Flat is nice but a bit boring and every website looks the same. Designers should start using some textures, shadows and gradients a bit more to add depth.
I kinda miss skeuomorphism, one of my first websites was a blackboard with a chalk font I made for my high school in 2009.
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#9The nomenclature is just wild... So concrete monoliths in architecture translate to high-contrast, colorful, fluffy graphic design? I actually like the examples he has shown, looks a bit retro and futuristic at the same time.
Reminds me of 90s pop music magazines, just less cluttered https://archive.ph/NrIHS
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#10Please, no. I mean, I'm ok some websites go this way, but overal, I preffer the cleanness of the flat style for most of the services.
Can't there be a middle ground? I have a real hard time with the flat low-contrast design that's everywhere.
The low contrast material design makes it incredibly difficult to navigate, you constantly have to guess what is a button and what is not.
I think something like Windows 95 is peak interface design. Sounds facetious but think about it: Controls are clearly distinguished from content with not only colors but bevels. Buttons often have both icons and text so you don't have to guess what the button does. Overall it leverages real world spatial metaphors extremely effectively to produce an interface that is very intuitive. You never have to ask yourself whether a button is a dialogue or an input field because they look visually distinct.