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rmdashrfv | 1 year ago

I very much dislike the tweet that OP uses on the Magic UI site that's directed at Linear:

"Companies spend $30,000 and several weeks to get designs like this"

Yes. Because being a first or early mover is expensive. You commoditizing their style after they've put in all the brain work to create or build it isn't the same thing.

Also, isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI?

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verse|1 year ago

> isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI?

that's definitely why I got into it years ago, but it seems like it has lost it's meaning and been simplified into "engineer that likes design" or "engineer that wants to be good at design"

rmdashrfv|1 year ago

It definitely is sad to see people not want to deviate even a little bit. I've seen at least 3 instances on Twitter where someone launched a product and they had the same landing page as another popular app even where certain components don't make sense.

A classic example is the rotating globe that you can click and drag. That was usually meant for showing sales happening across the world, but now people are just throwing it in a card with the header: "Innovative new features".

Like there's just no thought put into anything and what bothers me is how popular low-effort is becoming in tech. Startling.

101008|1 year ago

Wow, honestly, I never visited Linear landing but after doing so I see how they copied a lot of ideas / components from them.