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Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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2advanced Studios was always my favorite, especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8 I remember Eric Jordan, the man behind it all, mentioned in an interview that the key was to make the animations flow with a rhythm.

Thank you for this walk down memory lane—2advanced was a huge inspiration for me when I started web design and learning flash, but I couldn't remember the name of the site until now. Their 2003 design is burned into my memory.

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This is what early internet thought "the future" looks like for the web. I am wondering why there isn't design diversity (not using the sociological meaning of the word here) for forward-looking web technologies? Somehow the conversation typically centers around AR/VR or inserting crypto into everything. VisionOS is stereotypically "clean and modern". Web design in general seems so derivative and uninspired, which is…

If we were speculating what UIs will look like in the future and came up with something good, why wouldn't we just do them right now? As soon as you do it's inherently no longer "the future."

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Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project: https://virtualself.co/ Still, it requires tas…

On all of those but especially the second two you can really see the influence The Designers Republic had on pop culture and graphic design in the late 90s and early 00’s.

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I’m not a figma user. Are you able to point at a representative image?

You can see the glass material I was referring to in this video (timestamped): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10076/?time...

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Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project: https://virtualself.co/ Still, it requires tas…

Unusability peak IMO.

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Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project: https://virtualself.co/ Still, it requires tas…

A bit unfair to compare a new framework with websites made in Flash decades ago... nothing can compete against Flash websites.

There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no.

Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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post #23

This is what early internet thought "the future" looks like for the web. I am wondering why there isn't design diversity (not using the sociological meaning of the word here) for forward-looking web technologies? Somehow the conversation typically centers around AR/VR or inserting crypto into everything. VisionOS is stereotypically "clean and modern". Web design in general seems so derivative and uninspired, which is…

If we were speculating what UIs will look like in the future and came up with something good, why wouldn't we just do them right now? As soon as you do it's inherently no longer "the future."

UI isn’t just a theme. I can imagine a lot of different UI paradigms that either aren’t possible today or just aren’t practically feasible given development constraints.
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