Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract… Here’s my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:
- Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
- Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
- Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations – or all of these)
- Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)
I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo
Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X
Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.
The google redesign was the worst. I still haven’t gotten used to it and doubt I ever will.
You must have missed this…
X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I’ll be changing my username to ‘s’ as soon as I finish typing this. /s
These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don’t want to hire real designers. I don’t think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.
