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74 points·vergil··7 comments

A quick scan of these templates gives a strong impression of, ahem, "the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web": https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...

We live in a time when the old "holy grail" of column layouts is attainable without even too much contortion, even with the added wrinkle of adapting to small screens, but this is what we satisfy ourselves with now? What happened?

I am under impression that some web designers tend to follow the lowest common denominator, which is the vertical mobile touch display, then enforce the same experience across all platforms. This is why I sometimes see hamburger menus on desktop even though they have no place in any possible desktop design. PC games ported from consoles suffer from problems of similar nature.

Tell that to Google and other big companies :)

Do you have examples? I find magazine looking layouts to be beautiful.

Please someone stop the Jumbotron monstrosity and those full screen stock photos.

What about the license/copyright of these?

They do not include a license file and the Welcome.txt file included with Lexis only says:

" Please note we don't reserved the copy rights for used images. "

No license = undistributable or is that supposed to mean public domain?

They all look the same. I miss the good old times when "mobile first" was nothing to think about and people went crazy and really hit the limits of what was possible and good loking...

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