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The AI Aesthetic

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Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by anon373839 »

piskov wrote: post #7
anon373839 wrote: post #3

How could an article on the AI aesthetic not mention the curiously anatomical company logos? On a more serious note, I like the tiny icon trend as depicted in the article. Those little icons next to menu text are pretty ornamental, and don't need to be as big as they usually are.

The issue with the icons is not the diameter but their stroke thickness — it should be the same as the letters.

Oh, huh. I was focused on the scale but you’re right, they are kind of wispy. That reminds me of the anorexic typography trend from ~2013. It’s probably intended to convey sophistication.

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Post by hmokiguess »

Tangent but, I still know plenty of people who are not aware of the "hamburger menu" and also do not know it as such or reference it as such.

The bubble in tech is pretty strange but I digress

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Post by sebmellen »

jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

How do you prompt your diffusion models? I see that you are a founder in this space :)

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Post by aetherspawn »

The tiny icons are good. There was a touch device fad that surfaced, and is subsequently dying, now that people realise that using laptop screen realestate more efficiently helps those doing actual work.

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Post by cyanregiment »

Uhh what? So shadcn, bad devs using small icons and antialiasing - I think this is all peripheral to AI aesthetics.

Midjourney has a definite aesthetic.

Minimax has one. Stable Diffusion definitely (ugly, but free )

Sora everything is rendered in Octane lol

If it’s cartoon or animated it’s Ghibli.

I have not noticed “orange” as a particular AI trend.

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Post by cortesoft »

Is the "'shimmering text' for waiting" thing really that recent? I feel like that is a bit older, but maybe I am wrong. I have more and more difficulty remembering how long things have been around as I get older.

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Post by genghisjahn »

guessmyname wrote: post #6

> For example, there’s the hamburger menu (≡) which saw a proliferation during the rise of mobile due to the constraints around screen size. Speaking of this, GitHub replaced theirs with a pancake emoji. Maybe related to the stacked pull-requests announcement earlier today.

That’s what that was. I thought someone there screwed up an image path.

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Post by collingreen »

AsyncBanana wrote: post #8

A lot of these things are continuations of previous trends too. The shimmering text effect is strongly reminiscent of skeleton UI, only repurposed for chat interfaces. As always, design is more continuous evolution than discrete shifts.

As the saying goes: Slowly, then all at once.

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

> before AI what were the connotations of the sparkle emoji ?

It generally stood for either:

- fireworks (combined with other firework emojis,)

- birthdays/festivals (next to the birthday cake and "party popper" thing emoji,)

- magic (next to the wizard or wand, which features almost identical sparkles)

It was pretty festive. Now it's just AI, lol.

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Post by Centigonal »

Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components now.

I'd barely heard some of these words before, and now they're everywhere. It's like everyone suddenly has a friend who speaks in the same idiosyncratic way, and we're all picking up their vocal stims.

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