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Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz

Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project: https://virtualself.co/ https://virtualself.co/ Still, it requires taste and an eye for design, and balancing all the maximalist elements makes it especially hard to nail.

101008 3y ago
A bit unfair to compare a new framework with websites made in Flash decades ago... nothing can compete against Flash websites.
- bamfly 3y ago
  There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no. Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)
  - jaimex2 3y ago
    Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience. Mobile first was the issue. Adobe bought it and blundered about, they could still resurrect the thing but have no vision.
    - bamfly 3y ago
      > Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience. Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.
      - jaimex2 3y ago
        I'd love stats on that. I never had a machine slowdown because of it.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    What people forget is that web browsing in general sucked on the earliest mobile devices. Remember the mosaic tiling Safari would show if you tried to scroll the page faster than the browser could render it? Taking that into consideration, Flash worked pretty damn well on Android. It wasn't doomed because of its mobile inefficiency. It was doomed because both Apple and Android knew that they could never convince developers to build for their 30% tax walled gardens if Flash remained a fee-free alternative on the open web.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Yup, building an interactive website in Flash and then being told to do it with "HTML5/CSS3" is like going from a laser rifle to a musket and gunpowder.
DoneWithAllThat 3y ago
On all of those but especially the second two you can really see the influence The Designers Republic had on pop culture and graphic design in the late 90s and early 00’s.
- orls 3y ago
  Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.
JodieBenitez 3y ago
Unusability peak IMO.
smallnix 3y ago
His website is also very interesting: https://porterrobinson.com/ https://porterrobinson.com/
vanjajaja1 3y ago
Futuristic design is ironically very retro

101008 3y ago

A bit unfair to compare a new framework with websites made in Flash decades ago... nothing can compete against Flash websites.

bamfly 3y ago
There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no. Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)
- jaimex2 3y ago
  Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience. Mobile first was the issue. Adobe bought it and blundered about, they could still resurrect the thing but have no vision.
  - bamfly 3y ago
    > Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience. Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.
    - jaimex2 3y ago
      I'd love stats on that. I never had a machine slowdown because of it.
- rchaud 3y ago
  What people forget is that web browsing in general sucked on the earliest mobile devices. Remember the mosaic tiling Safari would show if you tried to scroll the page faster than the browser could render it? Taking that into consideration, Flash worked pretty damn well on Android. It wasn't doomed because of its mobile inefficiency. It was doomed because both Apple and Android knew that they could never convince developers to build for their 30% tax walled gardens if Flash remained a fee-free alternative on the open web.
rchaud 3y ago
Yup, building an interactive website in Flash and then being told to do it with "HTML5/CSS3" is like going from a laser rifle to a musket and gunpowder.

DoneWithAllThat 3y ago

On all of those but especially the second two you can really see the influence The Designers Republic had on pop culture and graphic design in the late 90s and early 00’s.

orls 3y ago
Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.

JodieBenitez 3y ago

Unusability peak IMO.

smallnix 3y ago

His website is also very interesting: https://porterrobinson.com/ https://porterrobinson.com/

vanjajaja1 3y ago

Futuristic design is ironically very retro