Tell me how the modern "minimalist" trend in computer icons, website design, etc. is objectively superior to what we had 10 or 20 years ago. But it's undeniably "in fashion".
What a coïnkidink!
Graphic designers for computing environments have been
full of themselves for about the same "10 or 20 years". They devise their designs with the optically sharp
eyes of youth, for their own
lightning-fast graphic adapters feeding luxuriously
huge monitors (that means
you,
Rorate Cæli!), placed among ergonomic furniture in
well-controlled lighting indoors. They define "
in fashion" as whatever the latest influx of designer-artist-rabble does that's self-consciously
different from whatever their predecessors did, even when it violates aspects of design that were proven either beneficial or bad back when the new rabble inhabited cribs or play-pens. Being
recentists, thus smug in their
ignorance, nothing that happened in computing or design before they began to hack software or hardware themselves could possibly be relevant or worth learning anymore.
[....] No multiple colors, no shading, no drop shadows, no fine details of any kind.
And as best I can see with my aging eyes, extensive juxtaposition of
eye-straining low-contrast colors, thus
excessive use of
medium gray, e.g.: the array of icons in your
original posting. I suppose that they blythely assume, based on consulting only themselves, that pastel-on-pastel combinations are "easier on the eyes"--or somesuch.
Why, yes, I
do have strong feelings about this broad subject. How did you guess?
Might it be desirable to move follow-ups to CathInfo's neglected but more-technical "Computers and Technology" (sub)forum?