Because a bunch of people need to justify getting a continued wage. There's literally no other reason.
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Isaiah Ross
Eli Jackson
What JS framework are you using? Did you check that it's still trendy? If it's older than 2 years it's probably time for an upgrade.
The internet is now mobile. It just doesn't make sense to make a desktop site anymore, so just optimize it for phone and your desktop customers will slowly catch on to the future of tech. Mobile only.
Do you have an app? Apps are pretty cool and more intimate than a web page, and you should redirect your mobile users to the Apple Store or Google Play Store when they arrive.
This page is too static. Have you considered making the entire background a video? Bandwidth is a solved problem son don't try to optimize for a fast load, it'll just work. 5G is coming soon too, so even less of a concern. Future proofed! yah.
What CDN are you using? Literally no one bothers to setup a HTTP server to handle static content anymore, it just goes on the CDN. Your data lives is the cloud, say a MongoDB store, and then the page itself can load a javascript to render the rest of the page by making a series of API calls to your mongo backed store.
Jason Thomas
It's simple, easy on the eyes, enables high contrasting elements and looks, in a way, more "clean" than pseudo 3D. Mainly because all optical elements are very reduced. That's not a bad thing, all things considered.
What you subjectively find more pleasing doesn't matter as long as you can't provide reasons for it (other than "i like it").
Brandon Bell
Flat design is bad because it lacks visual cues. In a traditional interface, there is more visual distinction, you know at a glance what things are. A display is a display, a button is a button, a border is a border, and so on. You have to go out of your way to fuck up a traditional interface.
Now that pic reminds me that, flat or not, the Start menu always sucked because of another problem: it provided no organization for the programs. Compare that to most other desktop environments out there, for example pic related: all programs are automatically placed in categories that make sense.
Landon Sanders
Your pic is not flat design yet it still has everything that makes flat design so shit; elements floating randomly in a flat surface.
The problem is not in the design style, it's simply just shitty design period. Pic related is that menu in non-hipster version of flat design, I can only speak for myself but I think this is way clearer and better looking than the default cinnamon or whatever menu.
Xavier Johnson
Not him, but the different shades indicate layers, which makes it non-flat.
Wyatt King
But then is better at indicating such hyerarchy.
Asher Bell
any desktop / user.env that uses over a GB of RAM is trash IMO. you can say that's because my computer is trash but the ever increasing hardware requirements are bullshit and are used to hide background monitoring & telemetry as the IoT will do with omnipresent sensor tech.
there was nothing missing that I actually needed, in windows XP running on less than 200 MB of RAM, or around the same on XFCE linux.
modern OS' bloatware is cancer and spies.
I'm about ready to start designing new hardware and OS from scratch, because everything new is so shit, and everything in general (x86, AMD, ARM, ?) is backdoor'd by (((82OO/talpi0t))).
(OP)
apply NLP to your design process, and engineer the UI from the user experience backward. study NLP. but that's on the conceptual and human side side, learning to effectively use the language you're operating in is a separate matter. still if you study NLP it helps with learning and applying information so there is never a loss to learning NLP.
that's Bandler's NLP btw, not ML's Natural Language Processing.
Nathaniel Kelly
you're wrong, you can organize programs on the start menu exactly how you want. I hope it's still the same on the more recent Windows versions... or maybe it's not, but mine is kind of well organized.
Back in the 90s visual consistency was simple but tricky, you had either 32x32 or 48x48 icons, and you needed to know pixel art to create icons for your software. and it was cute, it was not XP ugly or cancerously minimalistic.
Faience/faenza icons are great, they'e stylish and have consistency. not minimalist at all.The rest of the interface.... meh.
I kind of find this pc very productivity oriented.
minimal design is null if it comes with wasting 2Gb of RAM for rendering itself and running spyware processes.
Alexander Harris
You can, but it's completely manual.