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@secretbassrigs

Ай бұрын

Google needs to be broken up by Congress. It's horrible how evil they actually are. I'm old enough to remember "Don't be Evil". The hypocrisy should be palpable by now. I'm so tired of having to check if I'm being censored. That should be evidence enough of some sinister behavior.

@yomanyo327

Ай бұрын

Hey, do you remember what was the name of that screen saver/animated background for android at 2:57?

UI for games are also a solid example of artistic interfaces

@Kynatosh

Ай бұрын

Yeah some games look awesome but some of them have TERRIBLE menu navigation bevause of that

@HagobSaldadianSmeik

Ай бұрын

Highfleet is my favourite example. It has an amazing skeumorphic UI.

@matthewboyd8689

Ай бұрын

Yeah Call of Duty having one pixel thick line for your armor If we're supposed to be sitting more than 6 ft away from the TV then these lines need to be thicker. I should really make it so that you could read it if it was on a 144 display so you don't have to stop to understand what the F is going on without being distracted and die.

@EuphoricPentagram

Ай бұрын

Huuu I hadent thought about that but yeah!! Now I wonder what a Minecraft style ui website would look like

@Brahvim

Ай бұрын

@@Kynatosh Should be more dynamic, right? Imagine one of those Windows XP bugs which summon too many error dialogs, but as the number of error dialog boxes increases, the sound effect used changes. As I said, _dynamic._ Perhaps they stop using dialog boxes and simply bring up a terminal window. You could be fitting a mascot character into all of this! This change might stress out a user less and still let them believe that the computer _is_ having "severe problems", but in a more _"believable"_ manner, and let then know that the issues won't affect anything outside the computer, though they will require restarting the computer. Imagine restarting your computer and having the mascot tell you that stuff went wrong, but that it's been alright since the restart. You wouldn't even have to view logs this way! Win-win for being both a cool and functional UI that _expresses_ things very well!

Senior ux/ ui designer here. Just like anything that has transitions to mainstream e.g buildings and cars. The boring designs represents the defacto design for the masses, as it is trying to create experience that tries to cover all people. Thats why government services and banking is as boring as it gets but great accessibility. Howevever check out luxury retailers sites, gaming sites. Its focused at specific users that will appreciate fun and luxury athesticis. There many boring cars, then theres Lamborghinis, and lambos are not made for the masses. I'm sure many designers are also bored of the simplicity trend, but there needs to be a cultural shift for that to happen, e.g as you have shown in the 60s everthing looks retro futuristic, because the introduction of nuclear energy breakthrough.

@enricotartarotti

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for the perspective!

@caffeinum

10 күн бұрын

UK goverment websites are great though.

the Space-x touchscreen... sounds like what a manager would advocate for and not the actual pilot

@TheVincentKyle

7 күн бұрын

That looks like a design from a 12-year-old boy who thinks "cool!" and "future!" as opposed to anyone who's ever, you know, flown. And if you try to call them on it they double down by calling you a dinosaur. I can't wait for the first crash because a pilot couldn't feel a button from muscle memory because it's a flat screen.

@kaitlyn__L

3 күн бұрын

AKA Elon demanded it.

bro literally used Indian government website as an example of bad web design 😂. Yeah, I am from India and every fking Indian will agree with this fact. mostly it is a miracle if those websites even work. We just can't expect them to look good and work at the same time, no that is not possible here in India at least not with government sites 😂😂

@enricotartarotti

Ай бұрын

I still have nightmares from that

@YashChandraPandey

Ай бұрын

@@enricotartarotti Just think of applying for jobs through those website

@AbdulRawoofKhan

Ай бұрын

@@enricotartarotti That's the best website we have cuz its for foreign people, I wish you had tried the website we use to file Income tax returns xD By the way, are you hosting a meetup? I'd love to meet you in person when you come to India. I'm from Bangalore (Bengaluru)

@assasink1686

Ай бұрын

India is not for beginners🔥

@romancernjak

Ай бұрын

German and Croatian websites are right up there.

The problem with flashy animations is they take time to complete, and people are impatient. An animation in a UI needs to be completed in a fraction of a second. They're there to show an action is completed.

@LiveType

Ай бұрын

Correct. It's why high refresh rate matters. Can shorten delays while still showing animations.

@floofball8905

Ай бұрын

@@LiveType that's not how refresh rates on screens work, nor does CPU speed matter for how fast an animation is done (doesn't matter compared to old computers like in the IBM turbo button and before where everything was mostly timed based off the clock speed)

@Spikehead777

Ай бұрын

I do like really fast animations (finishing in less than a second) to show that I'm navigating inside and interacting with the UI, but also, I like when I can still control the UI even if an animation is playing (it's non-blocking).

@GIRGHGH

Ай бұрын

Animations typically can be interrupted, you don't have to wait

@jankoodziej877

Ай бұрын

​@@GIRGHGH typically it's exactly the other way around. And sometimes if they can be interrupted, it breaks something (a famous example is clock design in Android for setting timers, if you are faster than animation it sets to different values than what you selected).

I turned 40 this year. Seeing Winamp skins just made me feel so OLD. LOL

@MyrddinREmrys

Ай бұрын

I'm using the winamp from 2023 with my music library and great modern skins 🎉 in 2024 and planning to keep it.! ❤

@chualarbill

Ай бұрын

@@MyrddinREmrys Does it still whip the Llama’s a$$?

@karellen00

Ай бұрын

It wasn't even Winamp, but Sonique, at least the one with the green head!

@TimVerweij

29 күн бұрын

Didn't Winamp also run on Windows 95? I definitely remember using it on Win98.

@rano12321

22 күн бұрын

Well you can still get winamp level customisation feel with reaper because it's made by the same guy😂.

That "Delete Card" animation on the old wallet app was pretty sick! Completely forgot about that.

@JannesDragon

Ай бұрын

It's great, I wish we still had some apps that do such things these days

@gabrielgian6207

19 күн бұрын

Imagine having to sit through that crap every time you had to delete a burner virtual card today

I think user interfaces peaked right before the "aquarium" era. They were consistent and had clear design patterns, and virtually no unnecessary distractions. You could immediately tell that something is a button. Title bars were an effective way to explore and discover features of software. Window decorations and scrollbars were consistent across all applications. Buttons and switches were labeled with text you could read(!!) to understand what they do instead of some undecipherable icon you've never seen before (and will never see again). The recent movement towards simpler, more consistent designs is definitely a step in the right direction but it is hard to do right (without throwing out important visual cues in the name of minimalism). It's all too common to see designers going for what looks good at first glance in a presentation instead of thinking in detail about how users are going to interact with the design.

@talentlikedisturbia

Ай бұрын

This comment is so underrated. Thanks man. As a Product Designer, that's exactly what I was thinking.

@MichaelKathke

29 күн бұрын

YES, I thought that too. I think it's just cheaper to use automatically generated UI design patterns from libraries like SwiftUI, UIKit, etc. rather than thinking deeply about the different requirements of a music player, a shopping app, a photo database, etc. and implementing them yourself. Maybe games are the last playing field for innovative UI designs?

@AlamdaAli

24 күн бұрын

the thing is that everything is a button now a days

@caffeinum

10 күн бұрын

Now tell me should "Refresh tab" go into "View" or "Edit" menu?

@sczygiel

8 күн бұрын

It was step in very wrong direction. The ui you mentioned was almost optimal. Current uis are very bad for everyone. I literally mean everyone. Young folks cant comprehend you could do complex stuff with your device. Look up easy calc or planetarium on palm. Old folks cant find even simple actions - skype/whatsapp touch to show actions during calls. Profficient users are enraged by youtube tap to show actions and tap again to pause. Win10 ui where you cant tell where window ends and you click the bottom one when wanting to move the top one. I could go for hours on this. The current uis are piss poor quality and shit show. Bottom of the barrel and i would fire anyone who designed this. They are morons. Yes. Morons.

I was flash UI designer. Now, I'm nothing.

@clever8138

11 күн бұрын

Fuck broo, good old dayssss. Flash 😭😭. It basically made the web back then.

@jukkahamalainen2454

3 күн бұрын

Actionscript 3.0, the best programming language ever made. Loved it.

I disagree on the spaceship controls -- the touchscreen likely isn't substantially easier to use than the space shuttle's. SpaceX likely used the touchscreens because it's cheaper to implement and iterate on - same reason why new cars use touchscreens despite the increased safety hazzards associated with using them.

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

Yes! You do not see many touch sreen in military vehicles. Iterate ... that really is the mentality of the valley, fail fast, don't get it right the first time. Works for somethings, but not space exploration, aviation, cars...

And the worst of all anti-patterns: pop-ups and stealing focus

@vylbird8014

10 күн бұрын

And the giant ACCEPT ALL COOKIES button with, maybe, a tiny 'accept essential cookies' button. Seldom a no-cookies option though.

I went into Design because of those old interfaces. Customizing windows XP to look like stuff out of a movie, I wanted to design animated flash websites..Some of the niche web design of that time are like a video game to navigate. But by the time I got out of uni, flash was dying and the minimalist trend became the norm. Screwed my whole life trajectory since I was somewhat aimless after that. Never wanted to get into modern UI/UX design that is so prevalent now.

@bltzcstrnx

Ай бұрын

Flash websites are awful, they have a "flashy" UI but terrible UX. Not to mention they're security nightmares.

@blakearius

Ай бұрын

@@bltzcstrnx The user experience was great on many of these sites, and while flash caused many security issues that didn't apply to these design studio made sites. The problem was they were only really useful for say showing off 1 particular project or product. A pain to update or make changes and pretty bad if you had to send through any information in a form. HTML did sorta catch up, But its always been more restrictive and no one does these promotional microsites anymore as social media sites just perform better.

@blakearius

Ай бұрын

@@Axel_Andersen Don't think for a second you represent most people. The bland boring minimalist aesthetic apple popularised is a boring plague that counter culture will eventually turn back on as is currently happening. You're a product of post modernism, functionality at the cost of beauty, art and exploration and that mentality can piss off like the cardboard tasting slop it is. If you applied your dogshit mentality to everything you'd be fed intravenously because taste is irrelevant to productivity. Beautiful things make people happy and relieve stress and we wonder why everyone is so damn stressed and unhappy these days surrounded by mass market templated designs that all looks the same... stress is bad for productivity... But at least your grandmother wont trip up on some fancy steps or click the wrong link.

@ayodeledavid3034

11 күн бұрын

@@blakeariusexactly the issue is a lot of people use the excuse of it’s easier for users to understand how to use minimal interfaces than complex ones but that’s not true, we can make a learning curve that combines interesting interfaces that is easy for people to understand not completely dumping it for a lazier style

@blakearius

11 күн бұрын

@@ayodeledavid3034 The problem is it's all designed for mass consumption now. Even something as simple as creating a transition animation for a dropdown menu. Most users just want an instant response. On top of that the animation script can act differently or not work on different browsers and it can potentially slow down the site that some people click off. All these factors mean its just way more economical not to bother with adding even the simplest of animated flair. The web has thus become a concrete jungle of bland accessibility.

What drove the redesign with iOS was the fact that Scott Forstall- the then head of iOS and guy responsible for Apple adopting skeumorphism in the first place (he appears incidentally at 7:31)- got forced out of the company, and Jony Ive was given free reign to implement his hyper minimalist aesthetic over every aspect of Apple's product line. It had nothing to do with users "catching up". In fact, the flat design of iOS 7 was highly contentious, there were plenty of people who hated it.

It's interesting how whenever this topic comes up you'll have a lot of people saying that a big driver of modern UI design is accessability, but also a large number of people complaining about how difficult and inaccessible they find many aspects of modern UI design. It sounds like modern accessability practices have some unexamined blind spots.

@CyPhaSaRin

9 күн бұрын

sounds like bs to me, we all seemed to navigate the early internet quite fine, i was like 15 on myspace.. i stole code from here, code from there, like we all did, themed up a page, did the same with vampire freaks later on, html, all on a pc i was never taught to use outside of this is limewire, this is a p2p program, this is a burnt iso, and this is an emulator lol, everything else i worked out myself and so did so many others, so if someone needs shit basic to i dunno, check their bank, maybe they should get good lol

I miss the depth in computer OS design not because I want it to look like stuff in the real world, but our eyes are suited for 3d vision. The flat design aesthetic that has taken over the last 10-15 years is painful to the eyes exactly because it IS SO FLAT. It denies our natural vision in favor lazy design at the expense of our ability to see more clearly. Mac OS has become so devoid of life. I want the brushed aluminum look back. I want texture, shadows, etc.

@Roxor128

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's like UI designers were so desperate to get away from Windows 7, that they went all the way back to Windows 1.0. One thing Microsoft was really good at in the 1990s versions of Windows was making thinks look like they could be clicked on. They got fancy with XP through 7, but did a full reset with 8 and the flat crap.

@r.g.c.3897

12 күн бұрын

Everything has to be designed with a "Mobile first" mentality. They don't care about desktop users as we are just a small market compared to mobile users. Problem is MS hasn't accepted that we are the majority of their market since they have consistently failed in their attempts at the mobile market.

@jaredlee6591

11 күн бұрын

@@Roxor128 I finally found my corner of the Internet. I agree with everything you’re saying things back in the day felt like they had effort put into them.

0:05 only psychopaths do this

I would be happy to see "artistic" UIs return, as long as usability isn't compromised. The problem with the "flat" takeover, is that a "simple" UI does not equate to "simple to use". The flat takeover often left me downright angry, as distinct and intuitive real-world UI elements were squished flat, indistinguishable, and impossible to use. Thanks for the video and I love your accent.

@gn4128

4 күн бұрын

check sites that are made purely for design. They are awful, because design should not distract from content/

"People caught up with technology." Ehh, did they? Or was technology simply made simple enough for people who don't understand it to actually use it? When I speak with people who aren't traditionally "tech people," I find it really easy to notice that they don't "understand" things, they just know how to "do" things. These design rules you speak of, make things uniform enough that people don't need to UNDERSTAND technology in order to use it. People don't need to learn how to use a computer, they simply need to learn a minimal amount of symbols in order to complete certain tasks. This is also why we're seeing a change in generational computer literacy. It used to be the case that parents would ask their children for help with their computers, and now, children actually ask their parents for help whenever something goes wrong, because young people, who have grown up with this modern design philosophy, actually don't learn much beyond "click button X to make thing Y happen." There are obviously exceptions, but this does seem to be the general rule. So perhaps one might argue that modern design philosophy is TOO "good" or at least too simple. Perhaps it's a good thing, to not make things too easy? Perhaps we SHOULD cultivate a society where complex tasks actually require a certain level of understanding?

@clairesimpson7329

29 күн бұрын

I'm a late GenXer. Our generation (and older Millenials) grew up with technology as it progressed. We went from the command line interface to clunky UIs that were so slow they weren't very functional. Windows 3.1 was a little better, but Windows 95 was a revelation. It opened up accessibility to people who didn't need to understand how computers work but needed to write a document or create a spreadsheet. But as time has progressed and accessibility for ordinary people has improved (even if it is a bit boring but it improves access for disabled people) what has really fallen down is education. Younger generations should have learned a limited array of functions so that they can navigate the increasingly technological world but they have not. I'm a college professor. The level of technological illiteracy in younger generations astonishes me. I'll give you an example - one class (population genetics if you care) I was teaching *PhD students* and there were some statistical calculations that needed to made. Nothing complicated, just the chi-square test. In order to ensure they understood what was going on under the hood, so to speak, I made them do all the steps of the calculations from scratch in Excel. I made a lovely, easy-to-use spreadsheet with the data, and all they had to do was input a couple of formulae to do some basic calculations (but not using Excel's native chi-square function). It was essential for these students to understand (hilariously, some students go into biology because they think there's less math.) One student wasn't getting the right answer, so I went over to help (small class, only 5 students, so it's easy to give personalized help). I navigated to one of the cells where she needed to input a simple formula to calculate allele frequencies. It didn't have a formula, just a number. I asked how she had done it. She had used the calculator app on her iPhone. I was honestly staggered. Why are we churning out people who don't have a basic grasp of common workplace applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat? Going back to my original point, we have come to a place where some highly simplified UIs are killing the ability to learn more complex programs. Unless you have an interest, you don't need to learn how to navigate a CLI or write code in a common programming language (although it might be good if they did). But you do have to navigate the business world, even if you flip burgers or clean offices for a living, especially if you want to advance into a career. I'm a CLI girl which is why I love Linux. I still use vi to write code because I'm super old-school and don't need the bells and whistles of an integrated development environment (IDE). I like using LaTeX for writing. I'm forced to use Windows and Office because writing manuscripts or creating a presentation is easy when you have non-tech colleagues who may need to make comments and suggestions. I don't expect younger generations to be like me, but we have got to stop oversimplification that is leading to technological illiteracy.

@albericponcedeleon2696

27 күн бұрын

​@@clairesimpson7329 Rest In Pepperoni for those students that got into biology to avoid math and ended up on a PopGen course. 😂 On a more serious note, I do feel that my ability with software has gone down as UI has simplified. I don't need to think as much about what I'm doing anymore. Which has lead to the feeling that all of my workflows are sub-optimal. "Surely there must be a better way to do X task" has been an increasingly common thought.

@randoguy7488

9 күн бұрын

@@clairesimpson7329 A while ago I read a few articles about how Gen Z and Alpha doesn't understand folder structure and directories in an OS because they grew up on mobile phones. (The article is by Verge with the title "File Not Found")

@TheVincentKyle

7 күн бұрын

Thank you - my elder Boomer father has been using an all-in-one running Ubuntu for a decade now with I think only one support call in to me in that entire span. My Gen-Z child can't understand anything beyond the simplest concepts and aggressively resists learning.

The SpaceX one looks like a guy decided that it would be way cheaper to use a touchscreen, even though it is less reliable

@AlamdaAli

24 күн бұрын

yep. less reliable because of everything, radiation, durability, repair, everything..

2 important reasons this video _implicitly_ stated, but didn't sufficiently specify: 1) accessibility and 2) cost of implementation/maintenance. 1) A lot of "fancy", "hip", "fun" designs simply aren't accessible. People with visual and/or motor impairments may be a minority, but still accounts for millions of users. Most if not all screenshots of "fun" interfaces from the early Internet wouldn't come close to meeting WAI-ARIA standards. Additionally, building "fun" interfaces that work well/predictably with assistance tools like screen readers is either highly inefficient, or flat-out impossible. 2) Even if we ignored accessibility, the fact is: websites and products we use nowadays are designed and developed by hundreds of designers and engineers. _Any_ large organisation strives to have a cohesive, manageable codebase. The more "non-essential" complexity you add to it, the more difficult that task becomes. That is why a lot of the most "innovative" new designs don't come from large organisations, but small teams or even solo developers. For the record: Even with all of this, I am not saying there isn't room for improvement, while still honouring accessibility & scalability. But it's just very, very hard. That's why we don't see it done often-yet.

@Mark-wz9uh

Ай бұрын

1) Not saying accessibility isn't something to consider, but we are optimizing a 5% case instead of the 95% majority? And we are eliminating possibilities of making something cool, but don't because of the 5%? 2) That sounds more like company culture: Do we want to make something that barely works, and just fullfills the requirements or something we can be proud to have shipped.

@theceohq

29 күн бұрын

@@Mark-wz9uh 1) There is no definitive answer and different people have different opinions. Personally, enabling 5% of global internet users to participate is an absolutely valid trade-off; at least if we’re talking about platforms that are essentially considered a utility, like social media, streaming platforms etc. Where the target audience is NOT global I would agree it may not be of massive concern. Also: I never said accessibility is the only consideration. As I wrote in my last paragraph: I believe there is a lot of room for improvement even WITH accessibility in mind. It’s not “either-or”. 2) I don’t know if you have ever worked in a large software organisation. Personally speaking from experience: getting software built (at all) consistently is already incredibly difficult. There is an inverse relationship between “fun & exciting” and “code maintainability”. With limited time & resources the short-term economic decision for a lot of companies is to prioritize “maintainability”. Of course, this comes with long-term impacts on user happiness; but that’s a lagging metric with nebulous impact on long-term revenue. Thus many, if not most companies are willing to ignore it for short-term growth and profits. I said it before and I said it again: I am not in favor of these incentive structures. I am just saying they exist; and boring design is rarely a lack of will by engineers and designers, but by necessity imposed by large organisational structures.

@cjshields2007

29 күн бұрын

This.

@F3XT

28 күн бұрын

@@Mark-wz9uh yes it is allowing the 5% to actually live a normal life, I don't know what's so hard to understand about that, acessibility no matter the field implies doing that and this doesn't mean you are hindering the life of people by doing this, it's quite literally the opposite

@F3XT

28 күн бұрын

also if you wanna act like it's a conspiracy you can't even blame acessibility because acessibility is still mostly an afterthought, other factors at play are way more important and I imagine the original commenter also means acessibility in the sense of understanding, looking at an UI and having proper understanding of it

It is not just the art getting lost, these minimalist designs are also much harder to use. A few years ago everyone started wondering why buttons look different from UI labels, and you know what, it looks much more *slick* without those clunky signifiers. That really sucks as a user. It is painful to watch someone trying to use an app or website like that, and a few years ago that was basically every website, and every Android app. It was terrible. If a building were designed like that a door would look exactly like the rest of the wall because can't have a ClUnkY recTAngle, and anyone wanting to enter would have to go push on every inch of the wall to see where that door is. I like that parallel with architecture, I think in both architecture and software design there's some disdain for users involved.

@alainzscheile6913

Ай бұрын

well, I've seen quite a few buildings already where doors are only discernable from walls because they some kind of minimal handle somewhere. (gaps in the walls don't help finding those, because they get regularly inserted even if there is no door)

@PetulaGuimaraes

Ай бұрын

This. I hate having to spend time trying to figure out these gestures of every new gadget who decides they're too cool to have a few clear buttons

@JSSMVCJR2.1

Ай бұрын

Rectangles are the future, mon.

@Daniel_Zhu_a6f

Ай бұрын

simple UI is good. nothing is simpler than a box with a text label. animation exists for feedback only. btw, this is not a "modern" interface, eg vim had no buttons 30y ago, only a status bar and several text input boxes. and people love vim so much

@Cyfrik

12 күн бұрын

Been trying to teach my mom how to play OpenTTD. She kept clicking on the labels, because she assumed they were a different set of buttons.

Even in the 90s, there were still companies trying to make their UIs playful and friendly. Apple, Be, Palm, and a lot of Nintendo games from the SNES era went for that kind of look. The stark blandness of Windows up to Windows 2000 was on purpose - it was supposed to look businesslike, since corporations were Microsoft's biggest customer. As home computers became much more mainstream, Microsoft did kind of expand their color palette and soften up their design with Whistler. And then Apple came out with Aqua, so Microsoft panicked, went apeshit and made Windows XP look like a Fischer Price toy at the last minute, eventually pivoting toward a more glassy Apple-like look with Media Center Edition. I honestly miss the cartoony pixel art look of the mid to late 90s, though. Most people never really got to experience it, even if they had a home computer. But it was just so charming.

@Roxor128

13 күн бұрын

The blandness of Windows up to 2000 was the good kind of bland: it kept out of your way but made it easy to tell what could be clicked on and what things did. A little reading comprehension got you 70% of the way there, experimentation took care of another 20%, and reading the manual (or help files) did the final 10%. The blandness we have now doesn't make it clear what's clickable, avoids text like the plague so there's no way to use reading comprehension to try and figure things out, and rarely even includes help files at all, meaning figuring out a new program is almost entirely trial-and-error.

@luke_fabis

10 күн бұрын

@@Roxor128 No, it was ugly, tasteless, and instantly stale. Apple was way ahead of Microsoft in the 90s in terms of UX.

@TheVincentKyle

7 күн бұрын

@@luke_fabis Definitely agree with you there. I don't see it mentioned much here but personally I blame Apple and Google for most of this, as seemingly overnight everything became "mobile-first" so creativity had to be thrown out the window in favor of the need for grandmothers with thumbs - I get it, but I can still be salty about it. And then effing SEO and Bootstrap and now we're in hell.

Actually a lot of modern interface design doesn't have good usability at all. Usability has nothing to do with minimalism. The current apple website for example is a usability nightmare. Usability is about how things function, where they are positioned, those things. Usability is mostly about being relatable, being discoverable. For example one important rule is that an online button should be recognizable as such, which can be done in very different styles. Another example is the ubiquitous plus-button every other App has., except it does something totally different every time., that is horrible and not usable at all. Designers who claim that their boringg style is like that because it has a high usability are just making excuses for their lack of creativity.

@litjellyfish

24 күн бұрын

We need to separate usability and recollection and visual load. Yes they work together of course but serve different purpose. And as you say should not canibalize on each other. The balance is also different depending on app and use case.

The space shuttle is perfect example of good user interface. Everything has a place and will stay in its place and will not willy nilly move around the UI with every new version. I can see all the functionality there is and I will develop a muscle memory to find things. .And everything is documented in manual where actual answers are answered and not some useless help/search funtionality.

@SimonBuchanNz

Ай бұрын

Like many craft, the space shuttle had many refits over it's service life, including changes to the control panels. Also like most air and space craft, the panels were built around "MFDs", or Multi Function Displays. These are programmable LCD screens that can be configured for whatever purposes the pilot finds most useful at the time. But yes, everything was extensively documented. Good interfaces still require this!

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

@@SimonBuchanNz I know. But they were not TOUCH screens. And they were carefully crafted and tested. Unlike most UI we see on consumer gear, cars or on the web.

@Mark-wz9uh

Ай бұрын

@@Axel_Andersen Yes, there is a tradeoff of being simple vs being able to master an interface. Most apps today optimize for being simple for first time users. The cost is, that an experienced user at some point cant become more proficient.

@darealdeal8185

24 күн бұрын

@@SimonBuchanNz MFD style screens with programmable buttons is what the auto industry should've adopted instead of going all out on touchscreens for their infotainment I like having a nice screen to display infotainment, but also want tactile buttons to control music and navigation. An MFD would combine both of these things

Enrico roasting a modern house is gold 😭🙏

@Papasot

Ай бұрын

Butter 🧈

@Xaphino

Ай бұрын

Imagine someone walking out and listening to him calling his house ugly 👁️👄👁️

Software engineer (Programmer, Software Developer, Software Engineer and a transitional label or two between) for 29 years, I certainly remember what you are referring to. A popular term at one time for this was "Mystery Meat" navigation, and it was absurd and obnoxious (MySpace). This was before such a thing as UI/UX, and Google's material design won, for good reason, their minimalist design and standardization across apps made it easy for non-technical users to use most websites (later web apps). Ultimately the web is about converting users to customers, and different/creative/non-standard UIs hurt those conversion numbers. Which is a bad UX for the customer and obviously bad for business. So for web apps that actually matter, that isn't going to change. Thank god.

@DEZK90

10 күн бұрын

What kind of would be cool if more customization would come back. Like into your own profile on KZread etc. but also that websites would offer different layouts, themes for users. I know there are plugIns for that but since there is no absolut standard or framework it will always be a little buggy until the point every page uses the same "bootstrap" or other framework to start from.

@s1nistr433

9 күн бұрын

Flat design exists so companies can make a decent-enough UI without having to pay for talented graphic designers.

@TheReadWriter

8 күн бұрын

​@@s1nistr433L take

@lime148

4 күн бұрын

"Ultimately the web is about converting users to customers" As a software engineer myself, I never thought I'd come to hate technology, but Uncle Ted just seems more and more right with each passing day.

An important thing is that ui's for productivity / work - we need it to be plain, simple. The cognitive load of doing things differently when we are under pressure from a time and mental perspective is perhaps too much. We can't manage if things are too different. (Though, Microsoft make the dreadful UI's - think about Office for a second and if you're really unlucky, Sharepoint ).

@litjellyfish

24 күн бұрын

Yes. Same as books and magazine. Sure playful comics. Children books and some fancy art / fashion magazines is cool. But there is reasons we many books is basked in shared design guidelines. They work and as you say reduce the cognitive load. It is meant to be neutral as the content itself is the key thing to focus on. Not the ui. It should ideally be easy to understand but apart from that fade away into nothingness

The "unnecessary" is what makes life exciting and much more worth living. If you remove the "unnecessary", the thing becomes lifeless and unrelatable. If people can't relate to something, they feel alone and neglected.

Companies aim for all people, and assume many people are idiots.

@GuillermoPaulman

15 күн бұрын

To be fair, that's a correct assumption.

Skeuomorphism is one thing, but dark patterns and attempting to account for even the most technophobic user are what really drove us away from good design.

bring back skeuomorphism

@GuillermoPaulman

15 күн бұрын

I themed my macOS so that it looks like the version 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Those old icons are beautiful.

@mimi4plus3

12 күн бұрын

I bet they're going to try to bring it back in the next decade but in the most unauthentic and unstylistic way possible

@nifftbatuff676

10 күн бұрын

The icon for the app to check the time will be a smartwatch. 😆 🤣 😂

The worse thing about design patterns isn't the fact that everything is boring and the same. It's the fact that nobody tries to design anything new anymore. The "core" of modern design is stuck to 2015...

I don't miss the clunky user interfaces from the past. But some were very good such as PS3's Xross Media Bar.

I find the most refreshing perspectives here in every upload :) , Thanks Enrico 🙌

Let’s bring back skeuomorphic UI !

Thks a lot for that video. Was a pleasure watching and highly relevant for my job as a PM Software. Going to redesign our software and your perspective gave me some good inspirations for the tasks ahead.

@srikarkandikonda605

Ай бұрын

++ hope your app turns out to be fire.

@brianclifton9399

Ай бұрын

If you like your job, I'd suggest you don't. Look up data-driven development before taking the advice of unemployed KZreadrs.

Simple could look amazing though. Mixing material design with a bit of skeumorphism and focus on a more vibrant color pallette and apply shadows to text as well or little easter egg animations can make ui design a bit more fun

There will always a pendulum that swings to left and to the right. Where things are the most interesting is when the pendulum is in the middle. Designers can finally made the push to the next frontier.

It's just designers copying each other out of paranoid fears of being 'uncool'. Showing my dad what icons do on his iphone, made me really realise how stupid icons have become. They're not only just a few squiggles, but they literally don't look like the original skeuomorphism design they were based off. We're not ancient Egyptians, I'd rather just have... like... WORDS

@victortitov1740

Ай бұрын

that's what microsoft did with windows phone

@sweetcorm

Ай бұрын

It’s ironic how you brought up ancient Egyptians, whose hieroglyphs, that originally represented the thing that they looked like, have devolved into the very letters, you used to write this, becoming completely unrecognisable and devoid of their original meaning :D

@mayatrash

Ай бұрын

Skeumorphism can be interesting but looks really bad most of the time

@brianclifton9399

Ай бұрын

It's really not, it is because it is best practice.

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

@@mayatrash Functionality should come over looks everytime. This is where skeumorphism is a win many times.

I guess it becomes a question of function vs form. Do users prefer aesthetics or would they rather get their task completed as quick as possible? I personally enjoy micro interactions and the fun animations in UI as a user, so I’m curious what others feel.

@litjellyfish

24 күн бұрын

Like everything it’s a balance. Also let’s not forgot that many micro interactions are not just there to be fun and nice looking they also serve cognitive functions

@Cyfrik

12 күн бұрын

Honestly, most of these "simplified" UIs also have less function than older interfaces, by removing features to get a "cleaner" look.

@litjellyfish

12 күн бұрын

@@Cyfrik I think it’s very different. If we talk mobile ui then there was not really any old. If we talk more desktop app then they mostly have same features or have them implemented in a better and more intuitive way. Then there is a lot software last years with less features. But that is not due to the ui but due to targeting a more casual mainstream audience.

@Cyfrik

12 күн бұрын

@@litjellyfish I think that's a very naive way of looking at it. It's fully possible to target mainstream audiences and still provide a full range of advanced features for power-users. This is about taking control away from the users and putting it in the hands of the corporations.

@litjellyfish

9 күн бұрын

@@Cyfrik And yes you can have advanced features. I never claimed that. Maybe I was unclear. It’s possible with modern UI approaches to allow as much control with less complicated visual controls. It’s about rethinking how interactions work. Sure nothing wrong with say Photoshop but say Procreate on iPad allows almost as much (and sometimes more) control with a lot less in the interface. Instead it favor touch gestures and more interactive widgets. Like the time of a top cluttered toolbar and a similarly cluttered property panel is long gone. Sure this interface still is needed for some software. But you can still allow if not all the much % of the control and feature set with a more modern approach. Hope that clears more what I meant. And I would argue that companies actually want as is giving more and more control to the mainstream. Compare user generated content today vs 10 or vs 20 years back. Those figures speaks for themself right?

It's the one size fits all mentality and following trends. Some sites need to usable, highly responsive and very perfomant. Others do not. Other can get away with being slow but colorful and quirky. App designers need to not only know their audience but the context in which their audience use their product. For example, I use my phone for communication and entertainment but when I need to do serious work, I reach for my PC. Is the user trying to entertain himself or is he trying to complete a task? Is the user looking for an experience or for efficiency?

I would settle for usable, even though these interfaces are clean and bland/boring, they're not always usable, sometimes the features you want to use are buried under menus, how can the interface be so clean and boring, but be so hard to navigate?

One thing that drives me nuts is that despite all the unification, Windows applications don't even have a unified title bar style anymore. 10 years ago, I used to be able to click the X button to reliably close any number of maximized applications on top of each other. Nowadays, the buttons don't have the same size, don't align or worst: Some maximized windows don't occupy the topmost pixel anymore. So you click in the top/right corner of the screen and instead of the topmost visible application, the one behind is closed.

Useability might be an excuse for why the defaults are so bland and minimalistic, but it doesn't explain why customization options are so limited.

Last I checked you can have both nice looking interfaces and usability

For me, the biggest problem with modern user interfaces is that the user is just a passenger. User can't touch steering wheel. No control, my friend!

I actually strongly disagree that minimalist design makes things simpler and easier to use. I frequently misread flat designs in ways that would never happen in a skeuomorphic interface. The biggest offender may be those tabs that indicate that they are active by simply drawing a colored line underneath them. I frequently mistook a different tab as being the active one while coding (in code editors the tabs may be colored differently to indicate different things) and one time I mistook the colored line for a scrollbar. And then there are text input fields that lack an outline and therefore look like labels or titles. I’ve been bitten by those as well.

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

Hear hear! Agree with most of that. Having said that I think one of the things is that designer forget the old adage "Make it as simple as possible, BUT NOT simpler".

@Voreoptera

Ай бұрын

In some user interfaces for websites I can not tell the difference between a disabled button and a button, because the design between websites are inconsistent.

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

@@Voreoptera Hear hear!

@ThePC007

Ай бұрын

​@@Voreoptera Oh yeah, consistency in design is dying as well. Remember when checkboxes were square and radio buttons were round? Nowadays, designers just flip a coin to decide the shape of their UI elements. And yeah, the “gray button that may or may not be disabled” and the “piece of text that may or may not be outlined with a thin line and may or may not be a button” don’t help, either.

@randoguy7488

9 күн бұрын

@@ThePC007 Checkboxes ? You mean Toggle switches ? /s

3:50 We're gonna die! Old Space ship: Just use this switch! Elon Space Ship: Just get lost in sub menues trying to find the button that saves your life

@Cyfrik

12 күн бұрын

Some wires get damaged and the display goes dark. Old Space Ship: Just feel your way to the right button by touch. Elon Space Ship: Completely blank screen, impossible to know what menu you're in, or if it even registers touch actions.

@matneu27

2 күн бұрын

As long as there are no grayed out menu items because you had bought the cheapest version of the space ship, everything will went fine 😅With Touchscreen the manufacturer needs no buttons and can switch off function for cheaper models like they do it for the cars.

@Cyfrik

2 күн бұрын

@@matneu27 "Spaceship, this is ground command. You are approaching the periapsis, arrival in T-minus fifteen seconds." "Houston, we have a problem." "Status report!" "It says our retrograde burn subscription has expired. Below it says if we rotate more than ninety degrees away from prograde, the thrusters will lock up." "..." "..." [Three days later] "Fate has ordained that the men who went to space to explore in peace will stay in space to rest in peace. /.../ For every human being who looks up at the sky in the nights to come will know that there is some piece of low-orbit space debris that is forever mankind."

@matneu27

2 күн бұрын

@@Cyfrik lol😅

The guy speaks of monotonous aesthetics when his entire set production looks like an apple keynote setup.

Nice video, probably one of your best imo as for me personally, i use an android and like apps designed with Material You (changing colour based on wallpaper) and also same looking interface. I like it for the consistency and I really love the colour switching based on wallpaper. It's not necessarily that i like that the apps are somewhat minimal, its just that they are consistent and not too much in your face (idk how to describe it). Like the Apple IOS torch brightness thing you showed, i liked the old one because it was simpler. For your Italian architecture point, as a non-italian, isnt it also just that Italian buildings are more locally focused (creating things in pieces/stages and so there's a lot more detail in each of the pieces)

Spices and sauces are generally unnecessary to food, their stronger flavor can make people have polarized opinions on the food, and it takes skill to apply them well, but man, food sucks without them. I think design is like this too.

Such a great video. Loved the architecture comparison!

The flat designs came from the need to save cpu and therefore battery power. A Windows 3 / 95 style button requires you to draw a grey rectangle, then draw eight lines around it to make the bevel, then draw the caption in light gray as a shadow, then again in white. Then when it’s clicked on, you have to redraw all that but also redraw the caption slightly shifted to appear pressed, then redraw it all again when you let go. With flat design you don’t bother with any of that, you just swap the background colour.

The Patek Philippe example at the end was a chefs kiss. Great video man

No, no, no. Vista was "not too slow" when it came out. It was simply that for some really, REALLY strange reason, a small subset of very loud and non-computer savvy users have always had this idea that "a new OS must be faster (on my old hardware) than the old one." This has NEVER been the case. A new OS has pretty much always been slower than the old one, because it's designed for use with the newest and future hardware. If you had a sufficiently powerful computer, Vista was fast and slick. I bought a Dell XPS M1730 back in the day, and it came with Vista, and it absolutely flew. All the special graphical effects it used? Hardware accelerated... As long as your graphics card wasn't too old. Which for a lot of people, it was. Especially for non-gamers. For anyone with current hardware, it was totally fine. Did Vista have other issues? Sure. But "being really slow" wasn't a fault of the OS, it was the fault of all those people with old computers, expecting a new, forward looking OS, to be faster than their old one.

Good video although there are two points that I have to criticize: 1. He argues that colorful and cool Frutiger Aero interfaces like Windows XP and Vista were the trend back then to make computers seem more approachable and usable, but then a few minuets later he makes the argument that everything today is dull and boring also to improve usability...? - self contradiction here that doesn't at all answer why the styling is gone 2. It's not very fair to compare the Space Shuttle and SpaceX Crew Dragon interfaces as the Space Shuttle is indeed a far more complex spacecraft that had a large cargo bay that could carry satellites, a robotic arm, airlocks for EVA, and was also a fully-fledged glider spaceplane with wings, ailerons, etc, while the SpaceX capsule is a mostly automated crew pod that has none of the above. Their interfaces reflect the huge difference in complexity and capability between the two, and not necessarily a fashion/UX trend.

It would be lovely to see UIs become nice to look at again, rather than everything being bland, featureless, dead and soulless. I imagine it'll happen one day, but when idk.

9:16 which movie is this scene from?

Having to come across so many "old design" interfaces which also don't work properly, the minimalist design feels like a relief

@leojclarke

28 күн бұрын

Same. Life is overloaded enough… simplicity is peace not boredom to me 😅

I'm a programmer, not a designer, but I'd LOVE to work on some kind of sci-fi user interface. I've dabbled in the past with customizing UI's and while I couldn't quite get the functionality out of it that I wanted, it's always been sort of a dream to just make a program full with sci-fi UI gimmicks

love your content please never stop making videos like this!!!

When Dark Patterns became a thing to not let users escape the using of a set product ... User Interfaces became what they are now .... Soulless

very good video, you conveyed the information simply but interestingly, even the sponsor segway was done in a pleasing way

I think detailed style will come back one day. But I doubt it'll be popular in apps like tiktok. This style is more suitable for games

Your video reminded me why I studied graphic design and UX design. All the amazing UI back then and now I do the same boring stuff. I wish there was a way to bring that back. Accessibility is a big thing but I always wonder, WHAT IF, apps could have a fun UI and an useable and accessible one like the old apps that allowed custom personalization and themes that had real UI changes not just slight color changes. You got me dreaming man. ❤❤❤

8:00 really did put a smile at my face. All those uncecessary things, somehow add value.

Very beautiful, congratulazioni! Well not only beauty has gone away from UIs, but also options. Technical options have been progressively hidden behind menus and often completely removed. I think that there's a misunderstanding: how things are presented to the user for simplicity and with the idea of driving the user towards a certain behaviour, should not drive towards "removing" options and control over the the product.

@Cyfrik

12 күн бұрын

Honestly, I've been annoyed at the "clean interface" trend since the late 2000s. More often than not, removal of features is its main purpose, while user-friendliness is the excuse.

I always love watching your videos! You should have way more subscribers, thanks for always posting great content. I’ve been inspired by sci-fi movies throughout my life and would also think how those are probably where a lot of people get their ideas!

I've never done it before, but this video encouraged me to create my own material. This complete misunderstanding of what creating user interfaces is all about and the inability to distinguish art for art's sake from designing practical things really deserves to be distinguished.

Love this video and such content! Thanks for sharing 🫡🙏

“What happened to UI interfaces?” As a front-end guy: “ADA/WCAG Compliance”

@yungmetr0135

26 күн бұрын

WCAG standards are so ridiculous not even FAANG meets them most of the time

@ToddMagnussonWasHere

26 күн бұрын

@@yungmetr0135 At a company who mostly does, but it can be extremely taxing at times keeping it stable, mainly because of other devs.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

26 күн бұрын

So those are EVIL?

@ToddMagnussonWasHere

26 күн бұрын

@@JSSMVCJR2.1 Depends, suing pizza websites for 2 million dollars over an inaccessible experience?

@JSSMVCJR2.1

26 күн бұрын

@@ToddMagnussonWasHere Did that happen?!

There have been a huge shift in aesthetics when Google's flat design concept with web 5.0 came as a standard. Fast-forward 15 years and everything uses that! It was a determined effort to standardize the web interface and design.

because it returns to a simple concept but prioritizes function, features that have previously been introduced will be removed so that they don't fill up resources in the data system, that's why we never again find features that we tried in the previous operating system. Even now, to create an interface on a website, we can use a template that has been provided, there are no more ideas or innovations to create an interface that really comes out based on ideas from inside our heads.

3:51 typo

Very few programs allow me to make the UI look as I want. Obsidian being the main one with so many options. I mean, you can even make it look like a terminal from fallout...

@Faizan29353

Ай бұрын

yea but my is potato so i cant go real al out

@IllyasArt

Ай бұрын

@barutaji Yee, I tried switching to it a month ago. Unfortunately, I have too many programs that only exist on Windows to fully switch over. It is oddly miles better than Win11...

Fundamental thing I think you're getting at is narrow optimization, in this case speed of use, drives out all other considerations. Cap-touch in automotive applications is horrible because it requires vision to be moved from road to UI, tactile isn't a thing there -- it is designed-in distracted driving. As usual, you vids are great!❤

I have the same thoughts, but unfortunately in my daily life I'm yet to find an interface that brings the excitement of the 90's back. That's to say I'm not too sure about the future of UI. Those interfaces really celebrated the capabilities we were seeing with hardware in the past, and need to do it again so that people feel excited about the technology, not their brand loyalty. My computer can do so much more now, but it seems the only thing most companies and software is worried about is monitoring my usage, monetizing my person information, and generally just giving a less or equal experience from 10-years-ago with added surveillance.

07:46 this is such a great comparison! I always had this mindset when it comes to Urban Design and Architecture, but I never really thought of Product Design in that way. Love the message of this video!

Hmmm, definitely seen this video topic twice before recently.

Flat Design began with Windows Metro on Windows Phone. Even in the days of DOS we sometimes had buttons raised up with half-shadow blocks, and they went down when depressed (not always). People used computers just fine with the Windows Classic theme before Fisher-Price. Flat Design is artists being lazy. They lay down textual elements on a printer page and stop at that. These elements then can scale or align automatically without the artist drawing anything. The reason for Vista taking up more memory than computers had was not entirely the graphics. Flat UI on later Windows uses the same hardware-accelerated compositing with transparency. It takes the same effort of for a computer to draw a human-readable element as it takes for gibberish. The stupid hamburger menu condenses multiple child menus that could have been displayed side by side with less nesting.

4:40 No, actually it's less usable and boring at same time today. Color and cool graphics doesn't make UI more difficult. lack of consistency, sporadic placement, none functioning functionalities, touch screen none intentional jumps and confusing jestures. too many ways to do the same thing. thats what makes UI more difficult.

I think you are correct but bias, i actually enjoy the simplicity and that hiuse was a nice house with low maintenance. 😅

I'm amazed you didn't mention LCARS... one of the most beautiful but also completely abstract and incomprehensible interfaces ever.

Hey Enrico, curious, what's that instrumental music that starts playing at 8:55. I hear it all the dang time and would love to look up the artist.

I don't know, but I feel like I'm very much pleased with the minimalist, "boring and blend" user interfaces of the current times. I understand that it's opinion, but back then, everything was too colourful, too stimulating really. I remember using windows XP, I usually found to many themes a bit too daunting and over stimulating, I'd usually choose the grey/silver texture on music players or anything customisable because I couldn't with the many other too many colours... I don't know, I just find the old days a bit too messy and too much compared to the clean and minimalist look of today. Like I said, I very much appreciate the simplicity, clean, cool, minimalistic.

I love nostalgia as much as the next guy but new interfaces are infinitely more enjoyable to use despite being more bland because they’re so fast. Speed over artistry where both can’t be achieved at once.

8:00 - is gorgeous!

Great video, thanks ! I just wanted to add that the need for responsive interfaces is also a strong force pushing towards simplicity.

The flat style of windows 10 is a good example. Its windows are harder to control, because it is not always clear where to click when you want to move or scale them.

How did you not show compiz ?

Android file clean still has an animated android popping up and slam dunking the files into a bin. Little things like this are still around and are cool for occasional things like that but for things you do every day they get annoying fast if they slow things down or eat your battery. I learned user interface principles like discoverability (let me play, explore and easily find new features), forgiveness (let me try and go back and undo if I get something wrong), consistency and context awareness (show me what is applicable as much possible from where I am not force me to go back down a tree of single actions) when I studied computer science. Design patterns have partly kept the consistency part but I'm often amazed and frustrated by how badly the others are often lacking now. There should be multiple routes to get to an operation depending on where you are and discoverability is so bad that it's hard to switch operating systems that assume users just know things by now. A lot of this has been the switch to touch screens on phones which has spilled over into desktop leading to the dropping of useful things like context menus and hover icons even though they still use a mouse. Conversely the new context of VR is still stuck with a lot of patterns designed for desktop, ironically including pointers, where gestures and context that takes into account head positions would make more sense. Context awareness in Android is really bad for this in having totally different ways to install apps, uninstall them, manage permissions and notifications and resources (memory, file space and network limits all being separate). These should all be doable from one context menu where the context refers to a single app, as well as from the perspective of the general action across apps. If I want to clear the images or cached files associated with an app I need to do that in a totally different way than to manage the notifications or permissions. Even consistency is poor. Windows has similar issues with control panel and system command lines and 2 different settings programs making it way to much faffing to make what should be simple changes. It's also going more toward less customisability which is sad while Apple has just started opening up customisability of the home screen of iOS. Being a power user that Apple knows better lack of customisability was a big reason why I only dabbled with iPads and didn't switch but with AI Apple seems to be more open to you choosing how you interact with it. The semantic awareness of AI will make discoverability a solved problem but its fuzziness means forgiveness and the ability to revert the AI's mistakes will become the crucial consideration.

@litjellyfish

24 күн бұрын

Yes. One interesting thing. In Android the settings button has always been easy to access with a max 2 step interaction On iOS there is still only two ways to find settings. Search for settings or press the setting icon (that might not be present on your Home Screen) I always wondered why Apple never made it part of control center. Was it because they did not want users to go ikro setting as much ?

In order to allow creativity back we have to allow users make skins for programs and apps, and share them between themselves. top creativity always shined through user generated skins Also, I like touchscreens but for the love of everything holy we need buttons and knobs back, at least for non work appliances. Touching different physical things makes people happy.

Another reason for the simple flat design language is responsibility. Every design element needs to work on 10.000 different screen sizes, browsers and aspect ratios nowadays. As someone working in the field of children's educational software this is quite frustrating, as i used to illustrate emotional interactive "worlds" in Flash back in the day. Today it all gets reduced down to boring lifeless adaptable browser interfaces.

A 10 years system looks more modern than nowadays systems

Agree with most of the stuff you said except this -- * Usability. The old designs were usable too. I would argue that the modern flatness, minimalism and extra space between UI elements has made it more difficult to use. The "modern" designs needs more clicks as options are buried underneath more pages, so that the the UI can be "clean" and touch friendly. * "People no longer need their notes app to look like real notes because they caught up to technology" -- I don't agree that this is why Apple jumped shipped from Skeuomorphism. Apple is not the kind of company that listens to customer feedback to give what customers want. I want upgradeable RAM and SSDs, will Apple give it? No. They don't care. I HATE flat design and minimalism and I am happy you made this video. Thank you.

There was a lot of fancy designs back in the day that while not boring were not a good UI. Build form around function, not the othe way around if you want a good UI. The web all looks the same because of CSS frameworks like bootstrap. The super graphic-heavy websites were cool once upon a time, because it was new. The fad eventually went away because many of them were clunky but also no longer showed what technology was capable of. In other words, we did it because we could. The super plain boring look we seem to have now I don't know why everyone jumped onto that design but I blame MS's metro UI for sparking it.

Google trashed them with flat design and every other corporate entity followed suit. They chase minimalism which isn't necessarily what you want for a user interface. You don't want to strip away features you want the important ones prominent even if that means there's quite a few prominent at once.

Very intersting topic and well presented! There are other factors for these rampant design patterns, for instance: creativity is cut by the excessive use of javascript frontend frameworks for websites (react, angular...), most don't bother creating specific modules for them for time constraint reasons, lazyness or the sake of consistency. Also the tech industry is now a "leader - follower" situation, in the 90's and 2000's many tried to inovate and differenciate themselves, now a few are leading and everyone else follows, you'd be ill advised to stray from the carved path.

Bro that start bass was insane. 😂