What design philosophy do you prefer more for UI?

[bingbongbangbung]

Skeumorphism is just making everything 3D, realistic, and complex; flat design is the opposite, where it's 2D and simplistic; neumorphism is a hybrid between skeumorphism and flat, or basically 2.5D; minimalism takes it a step further from flat and is the trend that corporate logos have went to. I'm actually glad that neumorphism is taking over because both flat and minimalism are just so ugly and boring (not to dismiss their specific use cases though).

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There's also Bauhaus (geometric shapes and use of form function), retrofuturism which is obvious, and finally glassmorphism which relies on translucent effect instead of monochromatic colors that neumorphism implements, and finally brutalism which is the antithesis to flat design. With the exception of brutalism, these design philosophies are merely offshoots of the above, so that's why I left it out.

[andreasderjuengere]

My profession is in ''creative engineering'' (Yachts).

Over the years I have seen a decrease of competence on the customer's side, which requires to infotain them increasingly with fancy ''pretty coloured pictures'' where in the ''good old days'' it was sufficient to draw/design the product as a preview of reality.

Reality is not longer requested.

Certainly, 3D modelling (and resulting: rendering) has its own appeal. It also contributes to precision and/or time saving.

Drawing wise I pick the most suitable version for the purpose at hand.

If there's a ''philosophy'', then:

- only draw it when it can be made

- make sure that 'the customer' stays alive when using my product :)

- avoid stereotypes or trends, but implement new stuff instead

[bingbongbangbung]

Uh what does engineering for yachts have to do with web design? Unless you design the UI/UX for the software used for yachts lol 😂

[andreasderjuengere]

From your question I did not see that you relate to web design' only :)