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I find the premise of this very strange. Is there any proof that the kind of design described really came from Eastern Europe? Or that the most of the authors are from there? From my (brief) visits to dribbble it seemed like that kind of work was popular all around the world. This just sounds like "Us vs. Them" to me.
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Apologies if my comment was overly critical; I am genuinely interested in your opinion; I am just unable to dig into the meat of your argument. For example, this recent post doesn't provide any depth besides "all modern western and european design is trending towards a common style I abhor". As a fan of european modernist design history, I see the current trends and fashions in modern interface design trending toward…
> Apologies if my comment was overly critical; I am genuinely interested in your opinion; I am just unable to dig into the meat of your argument. Criticism is the name of the game, no apologies necessary. > ... a modernist at heart, I see this as a good thing; towards that fabled "Common Standard", that goal of least subjective interpretation possible... So much juice there–too much for today. I have strong disagreem…
This looked interesting but I feel like I am missing several levels of context here. What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps? What's dribbbbblization?
>What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps?
According to the author, the dominant Californian minimalism (Google Material Design & Apple's flatter IOS7 compared to previous versions). This eastern european style would be based on this, but add definitely non-minimalist gradients and shadows and glows and stuff...
>What's dribbbbblization?
Looks over function: https://blog.intercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/
since when is DA dead?
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> design that "pretends-to-be-like-another-thing" rather than "represent-that-thing-as-it-is" Great, let's use the screen to do nothing but show that it is a bunch of pixels! Oh wait, that would render it completely useless . No thank you, I'd rather stick to using conceptual metaphors[0] before letting UX design fall for the same mistakes made by contemporary arts, where everything has to be an abstract self-referen…
"Great, let's use the screen to do nothing but show that it is a bunch of pixels" But it does that. I'm not sure you follow my point - I would rather things on my screen did not waste those pixels pretending to be something they are not, in order to convince me that I can kind-of using it like that thing. Here is an example: Many web designers disguise hyperlinks on their page. They change the colour, remove the unde…
No, it does not. It uses these pixels to (re)present something else. You don't put down a slab of marble and say "this is a sculpture about marble" either.
I understand and agree with your viewpoint on hyperlinks, but I'm talking about the other extreme end, which is what a lot of shitty flat design ends up as.