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Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by woolion on Thursday March 31, 2022 @06:31AM (#30865659)
This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design. I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate. I have always not cared too much about aesthetics for any product where use is the primary factor -- especially since in most cases you can easily customize digital products -- but this trend is really putting me off to the point where I won't use products from companies pushing such designs.

To mention some of the most awfully repulsive, having to interact with Travis and MailChimp are always sure to trigger a physical disgust response, and checking Sentry, I was greeted by a similarly awful cartoonish homepage. I can't not think of "cynical company that will sell you to the highest bidder if they can wants to be your BFF, they'll even give you candy!".

Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by christophilus on Thursday March 31, 2022 @07:58AM (#30866209)
Definitely not my favorite look, but at least the buttons look clickable. That’s an improvement over having to inspect source in order to distinguish clickable elements from plain text.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by Ourgon on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:09AM (#30866739)
It does actually mention this, about halfway down:

One of the major points of criticism is that overusing Claymorphism and going overboard with colors and typography can give off a somewhat childish feel to the UI. Michał Malewicz acknowledged this drawback and gives a few suggestions on how to avoid that.

    “The friendliness of those shapes, along with the 3d imagery creates a slightly child-like interface. To counter it, it’s good to use minimal typography, strong accent colors good contrast.”

    — Michał Malewicz
There is still room for criticism though since this style of interface is not "somewhat" childish. It is the design language of Fisher-Prize, of large colourful plastic toys for toddlers.

If foresee a trend in classical Russian literature inspired user interfaces as a reaction. The Dostoyevsky style, dark and deep.

Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by jamil7 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:52AM (#30868575)
At least we seem to have gotten out of the childish period of "oopsie doopsy" style 500 pages. Although I guess we're also in the everything is an SPA period where a website will just break in opaque ways you won't even see an error page.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by zozbot234 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:12AM (#30866764)
> This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design. I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate

That's just your impression, though. The Windows XP Luna look felt childish because it was dog slow on XP-era machines compared to the classic theme, so it ended up being pretty disrespectful of its users. But a smooth-shaded high-relief button is arguably the best equivalent to that "Classic" look on our modern, graphically-accelerated, variable-DPI environments. It avoids the overly-detailed skeuomorphic look while still being immediately intuitive.

Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by nigerian1981 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:29AM (#30866408)
To be fair the article does address the childish criticism: “ One of the major points of criticism is that overusing Claymorphism and going overboard with colors and typography can give off a somewhat childish feel to the UI.”
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by happymellon on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:57AM (#30866645)
I'm pretty sure they are saying that any use is childish, not just overuse.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by nigerian1981 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:09AM (#30866744)
Fair point
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by micromacrofoot on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:42AM (#30866517)
I feel like life could use the levity right now
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by userbinator on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:35AM (#30866990)
It's the far too many rounded corners that triggers the disgust for me.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by wodenokoto on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:13AM (#30866292)
I guess you didn’t like windows XP either!
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by klodolph on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:20AM (#30866332)
The Windows XP Luna theme is one of the ugliest themes I've ever laid eyes on.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by kaetemi on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:01AM (#30867958)
Scrap the task bar and window frames, and it's actually pretty nice.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by giffarage on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:26AM (#30866388)
We need much, much more childish things in life, not fewer.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by happymellon on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:58AM (#30866656)
I'm fine with my bank not acting childish. It doesn't invoke a feeling of trust, which is important with some of these companies.
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by hwers on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:56AM (#30866636)
I feel completely opposite, but I'm curious where you come from here? Could you say some words to explain what you mean?
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by Enjaami on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:38AM (#30868403)
Perhaps you mean childlike, not childish?
Re:Claymorphism: Will it stick around? by xboxnolifes on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:59AM (#30868656)
Could you define the two? Because as far as I can tell, most people (even ITT) just use "childish" to mean "things I don't like".