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
>>107750604I had this too, actually. I remember thinking the icons in win7 settings felt cheap, plastic, foreign, and maybe empty if that’s the right word. I somehow like the look now though. Must be nostalgia
When I was a kid I made a mii of every person I knew so we could live in paradise on wuhu island on wii fit. It was an aero time.
>>107748730> KDE's Crystal icon setThis just feels old and generic though. I’m not a designer so I can’t pinpoint why it feels that way
>>107749239owned that fraud
Listening to aero playlists and noticing how lowfi they sound, like background lobby music. The way it sounds small and rests in the background like rain makes me feel it’s a way to disassociate and live inside a memory. The music and look is not center stage, it’s a canvas
Fun fact: aero was actually an acronym for AuthenticEnergetic Reflective Open
>>107748639Slop.
kash patel is behind babyduck shitposts
The only thing more hollow than the promise of a utopian Frutiger Aero future is the hate it gets from people without a childhood worth remembering.
I prefer Y2K. much more of a beautiful style
>>107748639For me the aesthetic started on Web 1.0. Those of you around at the time probably remember all the websites and forums that adhered to this aesthetic?Windows 8 effectively killed it and I will always hate 8 for that.
weird to me how people suddenly started liking this slop
>>107755269Because this was the primary design aesthetic for desktop computers 20 years ago and in a vacuum without any adjacent style cues it looks like a bunch of windows vista icons.This problem with it was that it made everything that didnt have an art team look like shit, creating a weird juxtaposition where windows apps looked super clean and polished but everyones else's visual basic applications looked like shit.
>>107761275>creating a weird juxtaposition where windows apps looked super clean and polished but everyones else's visual basic applications looked like shit.Yeah my desktop icons were a horrific mishmash back then for this reason
>>107749165I thought this and soft soap were the same thing
>>107748639You like it because it isn't the same 3 shades of black that dark mode likes to use, just change all your apps and websites to light mode and all of a sudden life is not longer flat and gloomy.
>>107748639I seen this type of design many times in chinese tech products such as tv box, and they are still around to this day.
>>107748639I hate when people mix up this aesthetic to Y2K, space age and retrofuturism.
>>107766002Y2K is the best. it really is the most optimistic aesthetic. it's so beautiful and futuristic.
>>107757631>babyduck?
Fruitynigger Arsero
