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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoriq Firdaus: Long Shadow Design - A New Trend?

Bleh. Soulless and algorithmic. One of my Facebook friends commented that iOS7 looked like Hello Kitty had vomited all over his phone. I tend to agree.

Looking at it, though, and I realize it's the lack of detail I find soulless and algorithmic. To me, the high point of web design was Designchapel, vintage 2003:

…and if you look at it, it's the exact same fuckin' thing only with more detail. It's got the exact same skeuomorphic tweaks, they're just deliberate, intentional and, dare I say, "ironic." Looking over some old brochures I happen to own (long story), the designchapel approach sorta apes the old-school approach: "we use this many layers because they're not layers, they're colors of paint and we don't have all day." "Long Shadow Design" basically says "here's our minimal representation of an icon, with a drop shadow because it's by rote."

My two cents, anyway. Actually, that was more like a quarter. I tend to overspend in these discussions.