Every day, I'm seeing a new product or website that clearly had direct design influences from companies like Notion and Linear instead of actually contributing something new. Is this the end of web design?
Why did every website/product start looking the same?
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#2For reference: linears.art
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#4Because visual design is both a) very hard/expensive to do well from scratch and b) not a differentiator for most products. For the vast majority, it's just more cost effective to use a standard template and focus on your core product instead.
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#5This is much more obvious for meal kit plans websites. They all use the same template and it just sucks because it's not a user-friendly UI either.
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#6wasnt this spearheaded by a combination of web frameworks (most famously ones like bootstrap) ?
It's easier for a programmer without design chops to cobble together something using boostrap than actually design a site from scratch
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#7For reference: linears.art
From link: “A collection of websites inspired by Linear”.
What is Linear?
Oh right: https://linear.app/
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#9Because end users don't want to have to learn to deal with yet another "clever" interface, and a consensus as to what works has started to gel.
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#10Because end users don't want to have to learn to deal with yet another "clever" interface, and a consensus as to what works has started to gel.
That is a nice side effect of the phenomenom at hand, but it is not the cause.