“Form follows function” is attributed to Louis Sullivan, author of very beautiful buildings. Whatever excuse modernist architects have for inflicting misery upon us laymen, this principle is not one of them.
replyOr you can do like modern UI designers and throw both form and usability in the trash and optimize for novelty and "brand" instead.
replyMy kingdom to have RAD developer tools be the norm again. I don't want yet another website as an app, or website bundled in a Chrome fork as an app. You could have built the same thing in VB6 or Delphi with less effort and used less of my resources in the 2000s...
replyFear not, soon everything will have the style that the major LLMs find most aesthetic.
replyOr just following the bandwagon. Here's looking at you hamburger menu... the thing that 83% of people don't even realize is a thing that can be clicked on.
replyHot-take - what if beauty (or to tone it down, mere 'pleasantness') is function?
replyLook at the buildings. We're already suffering.
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