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prolapso | 2 years ago

Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ

I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project:

https://virtualself.co/

Still, it requires taste and an eye for design, and balancing all the maximalist elements makes it especially hard to nail.

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101008|2 years ago

A bit unfair to compare a new framework with websites made in Flash decades ago... nothing can compete against Flash websites.

bamfly|2 years ago

There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no.

Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)

rchaud|2 years ago

Yup, building an interactive website in Flash and then being told to do it with "HTML5/CSS3" is like going from a laser rifle to a musket and gunpowder.

DoneWithAllThat|2 years ago

On all of those but especially the second two you can really see the influence The Designers Republic had on pop culture and graphic design in the late 90s and early 00’s.

orls|2 years ago

Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.

vanjajaja1|2 years ago

Futuristic design is ironically very retro