"We want to showcase the inner beauty and celebrate its construction" is too righteous for modern marketing depts. "How about a 10% off coupon for the first time buyer!? Could collect their phone number and email, nag the living shit out of them."
get in losers, we're making vintage UIs w/clear visual affordances, sub-100ms performance, no unnecessary animations, bookmarkable URLs & a functioning back button
Lol there is an interesting thing going on here where modern GPU boxes display the actual card with all the fancy decorative crap. Like going to a modern restaurant and seeing photos of the food on the menu: it has completely flipped. The object's first-order intrinsic property
It’s actually kinda cool that we are in an age of monotony and extreme conformity that anyone without design knowledge can make a great visual identity simply due to the fact that it’s non-conforming. All DIY branding goes hard, doesn’t matter how bad, because it is unique: the
We need a counter-culture design movement that appreciates products that are difficult to use initially, but tremendously fast, easy, accurate, explicit and efficient after topping the learning curve.
Ease-of-use is oversold. It's making everything suboptimal and slow.
Acronyms, especially internal to orgs, are based. Like a dialect of English that's hyper optimized for internal comms amongst seasoned employees and terribly optimized for new employees. Should be applauded.