Please tell me what this new replacement to flat art is called that silicon valley is now using, what is it?

[Forsaken Wanderer]

We all know flat art sucks. I've noticed lately a change happening. An example from what I think was Microsoft Teams or Sharepoint below -

I've noticed other Non-Microsoft examples too. I'm not sure how you would describe it really. Does anyone know what this is?

 

[Pissmaster]

I haven't seen it yet. Looks like something you'd see on a bottle of bubble bath.

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I haven't seen it yet. Looks like something you'd see on a bottle of bubble bath.

It does doesn't it, it's a very shiny candy coated thing, with glitter for some reason. If it does catch on what will people look like exactly

 

[Dysnomia]

It does doesn't it, it's a very shiny candy coated thing, with glitter for some reason. If it does catch on what will people look like exactly

I can only imagine the weird, shiny candy people. Hopefully they won't have oversized limbs and tiny heads and no shading like that fug flat stuff. Then they go and make like 70% of the figures brown. So essentially they are saying dark skinned people are fat and ugly with tiny heads. Way to diversity. Just draw normal looking people. Are the artists who can do that too expensive or something? Is it easier to hire any yahoo who can draw with the proportion skills of a six year old?

 

[Punished Derich]

I don't know if I'd really call that 'silicon valley', as I've mostly seen things with that same vibe from Chinese tech sites, although for that OP image it wouldn't particularly surprise me if it was AI generated. Aesthetics in this sense generally get retroactively named or named when it's almost on the way out.

I can only imagine the weird, shiny candy people. Hopefully they won't have oversized limbs and tiny heads and no shading like that fug flat stuff. Then they go and make like 70% of the figures brown. So essentially they are saying dark skinned people are fat and ugly with tiny heads. Way to diversity. Just draw normal looking people. Are the artists who can do that too expensive or something? Is it easier to hire any yahoo who can draw with the proportion skills of a six year old?

It's a common complaint from people on sites doing things like Loomis that apparently art schools do not teach anatomy well in the USA, not that art school really matters. Although the flat corporate people having weird proportions is a stylistic choice.

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I can only imagine the weird, shiny candy people. Hopefully they won't have oversized limbs and tiny heads and no shading like that fug flat stuff. Then they go and make like 70% of the figures brown. So essentially they are saying dark skinned people are fat and ugly with tiny heads. Way to diversity. Just draw normal looking people. Are the artists who can do that too expensive or something? Is it easier to hire any yahoo who can draw with the proportion skills of a six year old?

They will be shiny starburst people with glitter. For real right, they make these ugly looking people with long limbs and the worst looking art style ever created, then they say they are like that to represent any person on the planet, but then they make them brown and it's clearly meant to be a certain race. It's fuck ugly and surely it takes skill to draw that poorly.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It looks edible.

 

[Idea Waifu]

looks like shit, prefer the classic google non binary people

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Windows 11 Poopy

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

It looks like they have given up on actually designing icons and just asked a transformer model to "make" them while retaining the basic shape.
Has a very AI slop feel to it.

 

[Soggy Floppa]

Looks like Google's material design slop but with more emphasis on surface texture and 3d shape

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

corporate memphis???

 

[mannic]

idk, corporate candy style?? also it does not look AI to me cause the model and render looks too clean for AI, unless it was made using DALL E 3 and heavily photoshopped it

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

That's the style for Microsoft Copilot.


They want it in everything.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

This is called Neumorphism; from what I can tell, it's meant to be a blend of flat design with elements of old-school skeuomorphic UI (think Windows Vista, or early versions of iOS). Lots of rounded corners and inner shadows. I guess corporations are finally realising that people are sick to death of interfaces that look like they were put together in five minutes with the MSPaint rectangle tool.

Some more examples:

 

[NoReturn]

This is called Neumorphism; from what I can tell, it's meant to be a blend of flat design with elements of old-school skeuomorphic UI (think Windows Vista, or early versions of iOS). Lots of rounded corners and inner shadows. I guess corporations are finally realising that people are sick to death of interfaces that look like they were put together in five minutes with the MSPaint rectangle tool.

Some more examples:
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Damn. I actually like it in these images.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

Damn. I actually like it in these images.

Compared to the dreck we've dealt with these past ten years, it looks downright fun. I hope it catches on.

 

[Absolutego]

Gross it's like every web 2.0 site back in the day, but lamer.
Not that corporate memphis design is any better.

 

[Soggy Floppa]

When can we get UI that looks like Sci-Fi computer stuff?

I'm sick of all this minimalism, I want futuristic UI, even if its a pain in the ass to use.

 

[The Ugly One]

It's called neuomorphism. Skeuomorphism, which made UIs intelligible and intuitive, was discarded for largely ideological reasons hatched in universities by idiots who have never made a successful product. The problem is flat design is unintelligible, since our eyes and brains didn't evolve in an environment full of 2D glyphs, and everyone hates it. So they're bringing back shadows and curves without the dreaded "exclusive" and "dishonest" themes of skeuomorphism.