Material 3 Expressive

It's funny that the people who designed this monstrosity of a web page feel qualified enough to advice other people about design.

Who would be qualified enough to talk with you about new design trends then?those that design on your taste? Rarely, if ever, new design trends are liked by everyone. All in all, I think they are qualified enough.

Here are some objective issues with this page that I don't think is really up to taste (honestly these are so obvious that I assume you viewed the website on mobile which is fair, I never used the mobile version. Because I don't think anyone in good conscience would argue with the terribleness of the desktop version of the website). Note that I will not include many taste-based issues with the website (like the god-awful mouse cursor) because they could be attributed to taste. The following issues are objective issues though:

- Low performance. Because the website steals cursor rendering, moving the cursor feels bad and laggy. - The icon for the "menu" looks exactly like the mouse cursor. I don't think this constitutes good design.

- Also the icon for the menu doesn't look like the extremely established menu icon (even though it changes to that when you hover over it). Initially I th ought maybe it is a dark/light mode toggle.

- Speaking of the dark mode, the page flashbangs you halfway through scrolling the page for absolutely no reason.

- The link texts are borderline unreadable in the "light" section of the page when you hover over them.

> Who would be qualified enough to talk with you about new design trends then?

The person you are asking did not say anything about new design trends.

But anyway, if one is calling this page a monstrosity, then it seems in bad faith for you to ask that question on the same line where you call its designers "qualified enough".

Would you consider an answer that excludes anyone who thinks that these designers are qualified? Would you consider any answer that disagrees with your assessment, or have you already made up your mind?

Read the rest of the comment thread. It is obviously not a singular opinion, as you seem to think.

not really, I still consider them qualified enough to push new stuff. Wether it's a good or bad movement I see them as qualified yes. I was not refering to the page but the people behind the design proposal. I, for one, was never a big fan of material design even though I implemented it in some projects. I am still open to new stuff. I've seen people here calling shadcn a monstruosity for example.

> the page flashbangs you

Did anyone understand what the purpose of that was?

Emotional connection.

Those who experience trauma together often form a strong emotional bond.

emotional connection!

efb

> honestly these are so obvious that I assume you viewed the website on mobile

The page is terrible UX on mobile too. After the random switch from dark mode to light mode I tapped what looked like a dark mode button and got a full screen about page with no close or back button, so I pressed my phone's back button but ended up back on HN. It turns out to navigate back out of the unexpected about screen you have to press what looks like a forward button (I think they're trying to indicate that it goes away to the right, but the thing is full screen like a full page navigation so that doesn't make sense).