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Web Design Anonymous 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:11:25 No.9

Soup, /comp/.

Wanna discuss web design and the death of sane web platforms?

I even brought reading material.

>https://uxmag.com/articles/why-web-design-is-dead

>https://web.archive.org/web/20150609170909/http://uxmag.com/articles/why-web-design-is-dead/

It's only slightly better than you'd expect with the clickbait-y title and description.

Essentially, the good old web is dying. And being replaced by the nebulous heir named 'user experience'. There are numerous problems with this.

Off the top of my head there is the sad fact that this obviously implies user choice and versatility will be butchered under the guise of 'user friendliness'.

This also advances the growing trend of corporations creating monopolies within the web, the heterogeneous ecosystem of different websites being replaced by vast 'social platforms'.

There is a growing reliance on intelligent software, like Siri and Google Now, that offload your responsibilities. Very Problematic. Especially when this software is closed source.

It's nothing new, but it's something, and a decent fodder for discussion.

What's your take on it?

Anonymous 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:27:54 No.10

Fuck, I feel dumb for not even talking about the article itself.

It's pure rhetoric, no data is given to back it up.

It's a bunch of a priori statements taken as fact with slippery reasoning used to guide them towards convenient conclusions.

Not that it's unusual in this regard, since most all blog-y type stuff (even if it's called 'news' or 'a magazine') is just like this (what do think rhetoric is)

But I digress. the article is hosted on website for UX developers, so you can expect this from that conflict of interest.

Just trying to stress that the link is just fodder for discussion, not gospel.

06/10/15 (Wed) 06:46:17 No.13

I too get very sad every time I see this. People would rather use web services than their own computer, because it's so easy. People want to do everything in their browser, which isn't made for those things: it's for receiving and displaying HTML, with perhaps some css and some minimal bits of Javascript.

File storage? Dropbox/Google Drive

Mail? Fucking in-browser clients, who needs control right?

Videos? You guessed it.

Also, every kid that knows a bit of javascript now considers themselves a programmer, and other more powerful languages get disregarded because you can't make shiny buttons for your shitty website in it.

Sorry for the rant, by the way.