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Re:PHP: A fractal of bad design by TylerE on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @12:24PM (#3822949)
It's true in the sense that giving everyone desktop publishing software in the early 90s led to lots of beautiful typography and well thought-out layouts.
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Re:PHP: A fractal of bad design by TorbjornLunde on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @07:27AM (#3826946)
I assume that you are being ironic, and you’re right: there was a lot of ugly graphic design in the 90s. This is partially due to the whole grunge-trend…

However: I think today we have more beautiful design that we would have had if the design tools had not become democratized, maybe not in percentage, but certainly in amount.

My speculation: programming --> more programs. Both crap and great ones.

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