Nah, mobile has forced some level of sanity on us, and flat has curbed some of the worst design excesses. The 2008 web was worse for usability (though the 2003 web was probably better).
microsoft.com. My bank's website (Halifax). I think Yahoo and Livejournal, though I can't get either to work in the wayback machine to be sure. The content is fairly front and center now, where the 2008 trend was very "boxes in boxes" with lots of rounded corners to show you could. I'm actually struggling to remember what was big in 2008 - I remember Amazon and Ebay kept to a 2003-style design.
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Nah, mobile has forced some level of sanity on us, and flat has curbed some of the worst design excesses. The 2008 web was worse for usability (though the 2003 web was probably better).
Interesting viewpoint. Can you provide any examples of 2008 sites that you think were "worse for usability" than their 2014 counterparts?
I cannot think of any myself, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
microsoft.com. My bank's website (Halifax). I think Yahoo and Livejournal, though I can't get either to work in the wayback machine to be sure. The content is fairly front and center now, where the 2008 trend was very "boxes in boxes" with lots of rounded corners to show you could. I'm actually struggling to remember what was big in 2008 - I remember Amazon and Ebay kept to a 2003-style design.