Smashing Mag:
You knew the cartoony Web 2.0 look wouldn’t last long. Grunge is making a rapprochement.
Comments:
I like when Web 2.0 approaches the old Apple philosophy of clean layout, smoothly rendered fonts, tasteful graphic embellishments.
We need a little more grunge, but not to the extent we saw a few years ago. Certainly it’s not appropriate for business websites.
UI simplicity ... ah, the holy grail. One person’s simplicity is another person’s Hades. I have a situation right now for which I have to choose an open source simple CMS (easiest admin section, allowing for file uploads) for a particular client. Knowing the client well, the choice is not simple.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 03/14/08 at 10:54 AM
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I’m not a fan of the grunge look. The Web 2.0 look is at least more functional and readable, so it’s tolerable.
I would like to see a trend move towards more UI simplicity, less mystery-navigation and more grid-based layouts.