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Tells of a Slop UI

386 points · 243 comments · theanonymousone

czhu12 · 1790522750 · focus · HN ↗
At least some of these are just for lack of caring. I vibe coded this landing page recently <a href="https://tui2web.com/" rel="nofollow">https://tui2web.com/ and fought off a lot of the defaults the LLM came up with after a few hours of iteration. Feel free to roast it, I'm not really attached, but I thought it did a reasonably good job.
1. Anon1096 · 1790523872 · focus · HN ↗
  This appears to be pretty close to the "brutalist" aesthetic mentioned in the article. Things like drop shadows on boxes are the opposite of the "fingernail" boxes and you very rarely saw them pre-AI. However I think your site looks fine and well crafted, nice work. (the article also said that this kind of design language is less grating)
  1. jdlshore · 1790526068 · focus · HN ↗
    Drop shadows on boxes were a common TUI element in the Norton Commander days.
  2. thiht · 1790528823 · focus · HN ↗
    It's been a trend for years before AI... I remember the Balenciaga website being one of the first big names doing it in like... 2018?
    twobitshifter · 1790537358 · focus · HN ↗
    Right, AI had to get it from somewhere.
  3. czhu12 · 1790530176 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah brutalist is exactly right, that is basically what I prompted for. I didn't realize a bunch of other people were doing this. Actually the only inspiration I had for this was watching the movie (Brutalist) a few years back.
    alfirous · 1790531344 · focus · HN ↗
    Even before AI, brutalist style is not that popular compared to flat, glassmorphism, skeuomorphism etc. Two popular website that use brutalist that I remember is Gumroad and Figma.

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