I’d like a mullet, please.
I’m not a designer. I am not a designer. Let me say that louder: I am not a DESIGNER. And yet, I bring you these snippets (screenshots from SimpleSpark — “Cool Stuff for Your Life Online.™”) of web applications that people have submitted for cataloging.
Even if one ignores the unifying rating bar at the bottom (it seems everything starts with 3 stars), all these logos have a certain sameness. It seems as though they all wanted to be individuals, but were stuck buying their clothes at the same store.
Here are the sites for the past three days:
Is it just that there’s a limited amount of stuff you can do if you’re a web designer? Is it that there is a certain expectation from the web-app-using public? Or are all the designers simply copying from each other, and this will later be known as the “2000’s look” (much like the 1980’s are defined by big hair, tight pants, shoulder pads and bold makeup)?
