Design
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On Design Choices (Or: Why Does This Site Look Like a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper?)
Everyone’s doing clean, minimal, Helvetica-on-white websites these days. And that’s fine. Those sites are perfectly readable and professional and utterly devoid of whimsy.
The case for chaos
Remember when the web was fun? When every Geocities page had a different background GIF and at least three “Under Construction” signs? When choosing a color palette meant “all of them”?
I’m not saying we should go back to
<blink>tags and auto-playing MIDI files. But maybe we overcorrected.