This is so true. There have been many occasions where I thought someone was using TikTok, but it was just another app that looked exactly the same (Instagram, LinkedIn, some guitar learning app etc)
That’s kind of the idea. I miss the originality of old systems, but it seems like a lot of developers are prioritizing consistency and learnability for the sake of accessibility.
Developers are just glad that skeuomorphism has gone the way the dinosaur. It was a bunch of extra work you needed to put in to intentionally make everything look overly complicated and fiddly.
Hot take, all apps look the same now.
This is so true. There have been many occasions where I thought someone was using TikTok, but it was just another app that looked exactly the same (Instagram, LinkedIn, some guitar learning app etc)
That’s kind of the idea. I miss the originality of old systems, but it seems like a lot of developers are prioritizing consistency and learnability for the sake of accessibility.
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Makes sense as developers probably got sick of helping their family fix simple issues that were just slightly more work than pressing a single button.
Developers are just glad that skeuomorphism has gone the way the dinosaur. It was a bunch of extra work you needed to put in to intentionally make everything look overly complicated and fiddly.
It’s laid out just like Spotify and Apple Music, so pretty much.