The Reemergence of Style in Software
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The Reemergence of Style in Software
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#2I read it two times and didn’t get the point. It seems to me more like a bit of history and state of things article rather than reemergence examples.
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#3I thought this was going to be about elegance in swe/implementations
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#4Submitted previously 6 days ago:-
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#5Or maybe there are few startups with real innovation that is safe from excessive competition, so now software has become merely a fashion as a substitute for innovation?
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#6The article mentions crypto being a leader in this return to style.
Some examples:
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#7"a16z" must have an entire team dedicated to generating and promoting clickbait articles for HN.
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#8I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos
https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...
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#9> Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us.
The above is the kind of sentence that you'll see in almost any fashion or arts magazine.
Pretty fluffy stuff. Not really the kind of thing we're used to, in the engineering community.
That said, I firmly believe that there's always a place for good graphic and interaction design, in technology.
I don't feel that it's a problem. Some companies will stick to "the classics," while some will go overboard with the "chrome"[0], so to speak.
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#10I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...
I didn't realize Pinterest had fallen victim as well. Never really liked the platform but always liked their logo. Sad.