I think Wikipedia is not "undesigned", it's just a very well designed site. And the net is plenty of bad designers.
Sometimes things have to be simplified and redefined. In some ways "undesigning" is a very important part of the design process, in order to maintain the functionality of the product. This is the real purpose of design, not making things look cute and over animated.
Have to agree here. The last thing we need is more motion. There are very few instances where it benefits the design.
Re:2014 Predictions for Web Design
by marincounty on Friday December 27, 2013 @08:04AM
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1. Functionality
2. Form
3. Get away from your screen. Life is short.
For me Wikipedia had the best content and very high ranking, and its "un-designed" interface is telling strongly that making things "designed" was often unnecessary. Sometime ago an "[edit]" link appeared where hovering a section's title. It was annoying and has been apparently removed.
The first thing I do on a new smartphone install is to remove launcher animations, which are laggy and useless. The same with any PC install, either Linux or Windows: go to the settings and uncheck all animations.
Most animations other than simple sliding on mobile apps are also useless. Any the only moving thing that is useful, the "loading..." spinning weel, is often even absent.
So I think it will be like with rounded-shades-UI vs flat-UI: once doing animations is easy and mainstream, it will not be a marker of craftmanship, and will be dropped except when really useful.