I just can't believe the glossy effects are making a comback. What's next, glossy buttons? Did we step back into 2002? What is happening?
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personally, I have here for buttons that look like buttons and not flat rectangles. I don’t mind a little bevel or drop shadow. 🤷♂️
That ship has sailed for me. Not going back.
I would pay good sats to listen to this debate. Love this stuff.
People have every right to want shadows and bevels, because it DOES make it look more like a physical button... but for me, just NO. Nope. A tiny shadow is fine. Tiny subtle border to sort of act like a bevel is ok.. but glossy buttons.. C'MON! 😱
disclaimer: Im not a designer or ux person, more a general technologist and programmer. however most of my friends are designers and I work on software so im exposed to it a lot. I read “the design of everyday things” years ago and that’s the extent of my qualifications.
with that said, im quite familiar with design trends and personally prefer more functional designs than those optimized for aesthetics. windows 95 was quite intuitive because it had to be. current operating systems, starting with windows 8, went in the opposite direction and optimized for clean aesthetics- lots of white space and flattening everything. todays ui’s are still rooted in this foundation with a heavy reliance on iconography.
I want less cognitive load, not more. I think design is cool and I like all of it but if I was to pick between the modern flat designs and the retro beveled buttons, well, im going back.
I'm horrified! ☠️ Bevels are coming back.
Where is my cryo pod? I need to put myself to sleep so I can awake when this madness is over!
tomorrow this will be hot stuff
So friendly!!!
this is why we can't have nice things
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actually curious if there's some sort of a circle of UI design era's, that have keep on coming and going in and out of fashion
I think there’s nostalgia (which evokes a vibe) and some amount of recognition that there’s some good things that have been found in previous eras of design 
oh definitely agreed, everything comes back, but with a twist
I like the 60s design aesthetics. Both physical product and typography.
So much to like and learn from
have yet to learn enough, to differ between times and know what for example the 60s specifically looked like
It all starts and end with this 
60s popularized wayfarer, aviator(50s as well) Swiss design, Helvetica, futura, avant garde, univers.
Geometric design was all the rage and that’s my favorite design style even through I don’t practice it much.
I studied about Helvetica a little, but the rest are still for me to look up
Geometric design sounds rather pleasing to the eye, will look into it 💜
I'm hoping for more neumorphism. nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch for example.
Yes! Bring back iOS 6 style!
You too?! 😆
i dare you to make a client in that glossy style
do your worst
actually I like to re-explore those styles again with a new tech and all possible with pure css, which gives us more freedom and options for micro animations
and when the flat comes back, I believe it will be enhanced too