Heather BuchelOct 25, 2023

Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web.

Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

Show threadyour auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦Oct 25, 2023
@hbuchel isn't 2010 when Bootstrap was finally released as a stand-alone design framework?
Show threadHeather BuchelOct 25, 2023
@blogdiva Yeah, it was!
Show threadyour auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦Oct 25, 2023

@hbuchel the year CSS became cool because it was so convoluted with the javascriptification of every fucking thing on the web.

am literally in the process of tearing down a B5 theme i developed for a new site i hope to have up before the end of the year because FUCK DEM BOOTSTRAP bells and whistles. do we really need 500 THOUSAND LINES OF CSS FOR A FRIGGIN' SITE?!?!?!

am so done with techbros over thinking a hill of web beans. i want it simpler, the way the 3WC gods intended.

Show threadmoved servers ➑ @[email protected]
@blogdiva @hbuchel
and then we had CSS-in-JS! and we had MaterialUI and styled-components and PostCSS. you better understand babel and webpack before you even *think* about making that button a different shade of blue. /s
Oct 25, 2023 at 1:43amWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦Oct 25, 2023

@smitten @hbuchel

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Show threadSolarbird Oct 25, 2023

@blogdiva @smitten @hbuchel ooooOOOoo DOUBLE table-flip

[adds to collection]

Show threadyour auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦Oct 25, 2023
@moira @smitten @hbuchel search for kaomojis. that's how i find them.
Show threadSolarbird Oct 25, 2023
@blogdiva @smitten @hbuchel Oh I have a large collection! I just haven't seen the double before :D
Show threadSolarbird Oct 25, 2023

@blogdiva @smitten @hbuchel before this my favourite table-flip variant was Flip Person Not Table

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Show threadyour auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦Oct 25, 2023
@moira @smitten @hbuchel CTRL + C 😘
Show threadcratermoonOct 25, 2023

@blogdiva @smitten @hbuchel

Please respect tables!
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But seriously. I'm not a front-end developer or designer, but I have a bit of a story about unhappiness between designers and front-end developers. In our case, designers "largely cut off from the front-end development role" and exactly the two bullet points you mention in your "system is broken" section.

Show threadWinnie -a11y memberOct 25, 2023
@smitten @hbuchel @blogdiva gish!You are so right!