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 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦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 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦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 âž¡ @[email protected]Oct 25, 2023
@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
Show threadWinnie -a11y member
@smitten @hbuchel @blogdiva gish!You are so right!
Oct 25, 2023 at 4:05amWeb