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Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by skeeter2020 »

Bjorkbat wrote: post #10

Related https://thehistoryofweb.design/ The book is an interesting read. The death of Flash feels like the start of a dark age for web design when you compare what came before with what came now. Granted, this may be less due to the death of Flash and more due to marketers and UX professionals trying to simplify the journey from visit to purchase.

As a developer I really miss the Flash books; they were a beautiful, glossy, coffee-table quality. I think it was the designer-bent audience. There were some good programming books but nothing like the Flash ones!

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by tracker1 »

raytopia wrote: post #12

Mid 90s sites have a nice look to them. Honestly in some ways they're easier to read then a lot of websites of today. Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look?

I think a lot of it comes down to the much larger variation in screen sizes... back then, you pretty much had to work in 640x480 or 800x600 and were usually good... 1024 got a little harder, then it was all over when 1440p and larger became very normal.

A lot of the designs were also somewhat flexible via Flash/Flex and not HTML alone.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by bbor »

Amazing site, thanks so much for sharing! If you know enough to account for the inevitable technical improvements and changes to "popular" styles, this seems invaluable as a general writers-block-breaker for web designers.

I will say, after browsing 2008 for a minute: Steam is just far and away the most modern. Fascinating to see what ended up influencing the industry (or predicting it?).

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/all-websites/steam-2008

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by Bjorkbat »

reaperducer wrote: post #15
Bjorkbat wrote: post #10

Related https://thehistoryofweb.design/ The book is an interesting read. The death of Flash feels like the start of a dark age for web design when you compare what came before with what came now. Granted, this may be less due to the death of Flash and more due to marketers and UX professionals trying to simplify the journey from visit to purchase.

The death of Flash feels like the start of a dark age for web design when you compare what came before with what came now. People romanticize Flash these days. Especially people who weren't old enough to struggle with it. Used improperly – as it very often was – Flash was a resource hog far beyond even the craziest of today's web sites. In many circumstances it could actually crash your computer. Not just the browser…

I never developed with Flash, but I grew up on Flash media, in particular old Newgrounds Flash games / movies. I remember some of the pains of the day. The fact that Flash media usually came with a loading bar is seems quaint compared to now when websites are expected to load in mere seconds.

To some extent I'm glad we live in a time where websites are lean and efficient for the reasons you mentioned, but man, I miss the days when the internet was actually worth exploring.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by cyph3rpvnk »

reaperducer wrote: post #17
raytopia wrote: post #12

Mid 90s sites have a nice look to them. Honestly in some ways they're easier to read then a lot of websites of today. Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look?

Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look? A lot of it is monkey-see-monkey-do. And realted, the widespread use of common frameworks instead of people actually understanding how web sites work and doing their own programming. I build a web site for a hospital that was fast and responsive and accessible. A manager complained that it didn't look like a "real" we…

That's atrocious. I think a big part of it is the merging of websites (purely informational) and web applications (programs with IO). The lines have blurred over the years.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by perardi »

reaperducer wrote: post #17
raytopia wrote: post #12

Mid 90s sites have a nice look to them. Honestly in some ways they're easier to read then a lot of websites of today. Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look?

Is there a reason why designers moved away from that - I'm not sure what to call it - magazine look? A lot of it is monkey-see-monkey-do. And realted, the widespread use of common frameworks instead of people actually understanding how web sites work and doing their own programming. I build a web site for a hospital that was fast and responsive and accessible. A manager complained that it didn't look like a "real" we…

Wow, I’ve never had someone ask me to purposefully build in latency. That’s nuts.

Maybe she was responding to how jarring page transitions can be. I’ve gotten some good use out of the View Transitions API in a product I’m building. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...) It’s a server-side rendered multi-page app, and throwing in just a bit of view transition CSS to get a nice fade effect when you go to a different page does feel nice.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by dang »

Related:

Web Design Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579730 - June 2024 (3 comments)

Web Design Museum 1991-2006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34675360 - Feb 2023 (31 comments)

Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723141 - July 2020 (14 comments)

Web Design Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17891826 - Sept 2018 (90 comments)

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