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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by neilpanchal on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:57PM (#25556547)
2009 rectangles were pretty cool. They had scroll bars that were visible at all times, minimal whitespace and generally better usability and functionality. No purple gradients and huge buttons, responsive mess that serve what I consider mobile-first-desktop-last rectangles. It's becoming harder to find pure rectangles even, they've become soft baby-like with rounded corners to sooth our senses!

Here are some relics with sane typography, iconic icons and compact UI [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.martinmajoor.com/6_my_philosophy.html

[2] http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/news

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by tim333 on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:24AM (#25559000)
>minimal whitespace

Your examples seem to have plenty of whitespace, at least 1 and 2 do. That said I quite like whitespace.

I think there much to be said for sites that look like traditional nicely done books eg https://bikes-n-stuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_922... which is a look which evolved over many decades.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by solarkraft on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:42PM (#25556735)
The silk icons are fine visually, but way too complex to tell them apart quickly. [2] looks like an example of the headache badly mixed typography can cause.

Those are opinions, of course, but I don't think the basics (like soothed senses) are controversial, many of which can be objectively studied.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by neilpanchal on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:04AM (#25556837)
2030 rectangles are back to pure retro forms! Most design today is based on trends, and hardly any objectivity: https://www.google.com/search?q=design+trends
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