thoughts on fruit arrow?yeah yeah yeah zoomer this fake history that. I just want to talk about this aesthetic, particularly in software. I personally really like it. It feels lively, peaceful, and futuristic. After this came minimalism where UI was super flat, dull, and spaced out. Basically the opposite of the 3D gradient-heavy water vibes of fruit arrow.
I was alive st the time but very young. Even I can tell you this never existed the way it's being recalled. There weren't nearly so many fish. I mean hell one of the items in your picture is literally just a fucking bottle of hand soap. What existed separately but simultaneously was a thing with gradients and a thing with white/clear plastics. The gradients thing is the default for human art when technically possible, it's only notable in hindsight because mostly Microsoft and a little bit of accessibilityfags in the w3c inflicted flatshit on the world that still hasn't completely gone away. As for the plastics, well, no defending that really. I'm glad most things are black now instead. But it's definitely the least hallucinated part of the time. iPods and sunglasses and all sorts of things at the time were using it.
>>107748639The UX design that you're talking about basically didn't exist. However, elements of it are true. Look at Windows Aero or Mac's Aqua, or even in the FOSS world, KDE's Crystal icon set. THAT is what you're looking for.That said, I'm not sure we'll ever return to that era in a mass adoption sense. There's a growing hunger for it amongst hobbyist circles, so you may see it adapted and utilized by Linux desktop people, but on the corporate end, it's never happening again.
>>107748666>flatshit on the world that still hasn't completely gone awayIn a way it's actually gotten worse, originally flatshit was mostly just large swaths of single colors and opaque UI elements. Now we have light mode, dark mode, and symbolic icons. No colors or UI elements.
>>107748639I am old enough to not care anymore.Computer is a tool. It's not that modern UI is so bad that it isn't usable anymore.Just switch to Linux if you want something more customizable.
>>107748666>>107748730I understand it's cherry picked and revisionist history. All nostalgia is to some degree. Distilling out the clean reflective gelatin aesthetics of things into one coherent design is a great look. I wouldn't say it could never happen again because of liquid glass on macOS and iOS and even some of Microsoft's newer icons.
>>107748639>palmolive soapHell yeah
I just want the world to be less flat. Flat is boring as hell.
>>107748639it's a nice-looking aestheticcalling it frutiger aero makes you a faggot on the spot though, have an original thought for once in your life
>>107749212you're right i'm going to make up my own custom terminology for everything so that no one knows what i'm talking about. then i'll be cool and special like (you)
>>107748639>frutiger aeroWe just called it Aero.
It’s too divisive. Apple tried to dip their feet into it and there was some very vocal outrage even though it was only a vague suggestion of that aesthetic. I personally like it but I think it’s staying in the past.
>>107748639Good, but most of the stuff zoomers post now are shit. Too messy and unrestrained, like the pic you posted. Original design examples from the era tends to be much better.
>>107749249Yeah I can never not read frutiger and think of some sort of rooty tooty fresh n' fruity thing.
>>107750551..and *NOT think of some sort of rooty tooty fresh n' fruity thing.
>>107748639I didn’t like this style as a kid. Maybe it reminded me too much of early 3d animation in cartoons or something, but it always felt cheap to me. When W7 came around and later 8 with the more flat design I really liked it. Granted, I was watching a lot of Star Trek at the time and I loved the LCARS aesthetic. Whenever I see Aero I immediately also hear eurobeats: https://youtu.be/66X7WBJvY9k
