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The age of average

The age of average

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art.
Alex Murrell
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ghost_laptop
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the same happens in development with minimalism. for some reason it's the standard even among gnuhards, literally everything is black and as little expression as possible. there's these android drawers which literally show apps as a list of text with no icon. yeah, that's exactly what i want to see, so beautiful... or if you browse unixporn, you'll see most hyprland/niri whatever rices are gnome... i think we should definitely start to take a few lessons from the 2000's school of design. most defintely there were shitty thing, and code minimalism is good. but the user has so very little agency in the expression of how their software looks nowadays that's sad.
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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It's an interesting social phenomenon how most people tend to gravitate towards whatever style happens to be dominant at the time. And it's not that certain ones are inherently better than others as we see styles cycle over time.
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ZeroHora
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That's a problem that I had during UX class in my university because essentially good UX = whatever big company is doing.Who said that a search engine need to look like Google? Every different test to measure people is is to reinforce that what people are already used to, because some big company did in the past, is what everyone should be doing.
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