![]() If Windows 2000 wasn't "aesthetic" then we wouldn't have Vaporwave, after all look how that late-90s look is glorified now. Aesthetics are always going to be critical to the consumer experience of technology the problem is that there are difference schools of aesthetics, and presently the high-status UX school is a minimalist one that values showing as little information as possible in order to look 'easy to understand' in screenshots and at-a-glance tours. We've gotten so worse, it is appalling and we should all be ashamed. If it wasn't for Elliot Noyes, no one would ever think of IBM in the same way. We need to revive some people like Paul Rand and Josef Muller-Brockmann, may be get Stankowski and a few others to do marketing. ![]() Developers love Stripe design, but it is overrated - full of animations, bright colors, sexy transitions and for some reason they love diagonal lines. Just look at and see how loud it all is. Furthermore, needs overhaul on multiple fronts since great design doesn't sell apparently according to most rebuttals. It requires complete scrub of how we think about building excellent products with deep understanding of humans (not users). This is just the symptom of a larger, deeper and more insiduous problem - design education, short-term corporate targets, discipline, anti-functionalism, celebration of aesthetics, marketing overreach, lack of rigorous criticism and unwilling to convince users.
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