Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different

Post by sanskritabelt » Wed, Nov 13, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

cclogg wrote: post #61

normalhuman wrote: post #8

I think it is also hard to be aware that you are in a trend when you are living it. Many of the things that pass as "clean design" at the moment are just a trend, and I promise you that they will look dated soon. This always happens. It happened with 80s hair, with 90s androgyny and it will happen again big text, extreme minimalist, big poetic photo backgrounds and so on.

I agree with this, but I guess many Asian websites do feel like they're stuck in a 1998 trend. Actually this also seems to apply to music too... when I hear my Taiwanese friends' music, it seems like it still hasn't escaped boy-band era (1998?).

Post by msutherl » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

dead_phish wrote: post #105

rapind wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well Ruby came out of Japan. So in 1995 some of Japan's coders were programming like it was 2005.

Well, one of Japan's coders. Matz was kind of revolutionary.

Post by cclogg » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #89

cclogg wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with this, but I guess many Asian websites do feel like they're stuck in a 1998 trend. Actually this also seems to apply to music too... when I hear my Taiwanese friends' music, it seems like it still hasn't escaped boy-band era (1998?).

Like "the West" had escaped anything… Justin Bieber? JLS? Even goddamn Take That are still outselling everyone else except newer manufactured pop acts. People in glass houses should not throw stones.