Debate over whether this is a transitional phase like Bootstrap adoption
4 Sep 27 11:40 AM · 1d ago · 6 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5
zinoc compared the current wave of homogeneous AI UI designs to the early Bootstrap framework era, arguing the standardization may ultimately improve usability and accessibility. AyanamiKaine countered that learning design fundamentals remains important and gatekeeping accusations against design criticism are unfair.
“This is similar to the rapid early adoption of the Bootstrap CSS framework. A lot of people were annoyed by the sudden spike of websites that looked and felt the same, but I think this was a tremendous step forward in usability and accessibility.”
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The thing is, that kind of screen has existed long before vibe coding was a thing. Discord, for example, has had it for years. And the purpose is to reassure the use that the app is still doing something (since users have cottoned on that spinners are meaningless).Some of the other examples there are equally error prone. The glass example, is…
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I think lots of AI tells these days are leaks from the ai/writer connection into text for the reader. It partly feels like the inevitable result of RLHF with the wrong human's feedback ("I did it! Pick me!") and partly feels like thinking tokens leaking into the main text."Here's the argument, in plain terms", "It's not just X, it's Y", "It's…
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While not playing WoW Forever myself, I like reading the news and subreddit about it. In the last days, every day a new "self-made" UI mod gets showcased transforming the UI into AI slop.Disregarding any design standards and letting the AI role with it. People that mention it, in the comments, get blasted by accusations of gate-keeping.I see this…
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LLMs love https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpec... . You tell them not to do a thing, they make a point of saying they didn't do the thing.
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tbh, they don't really need the website, it could just be a simple pure text website with a simple tagline explaining what they do, a sign in and sign up button, that's it.what really matters the most is the dashboard.
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I'm really pissed off that my favorite web design style Brutalism is now an AI slop smell. They already took my em-dash! *shakes first Missing from the list: "Claude beige" and "Claude anthracite grey".
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> It adds these // whenever anything close to tech is mentioned.Shoot. I use those in my portfolio and didn't know they were using them everywhere.
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Cloudflare is slopped out these days. Tons of people uncoordinated, all flailing around. Vibe flailing, I suppose.
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