Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.

[–] beta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract... Here's my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:

Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations -- or all of these)
Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Firefox still has the fox:

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo

[–] beta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that’s my bad.

[–] Finnbot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It kooks like children were forced to design corporate logos in ms paint.

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X

Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, that reminds me of IAMX

[–] lukini@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The google redesign was the worst. I still haven't gotten used to it and doubt I ever will.

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 years ago

The new logos are an acessibility nightmare. How does a stupid and unnecessary redesign like this gets approved?

[–] arghya_333@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Those logos were so good.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don't want to hire real designers. I don't think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.

[–] some_guy 1 points 2 years ago

You must have missed this…

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/if-other-media-companies-thought-about-brand-equity-the-way-elon-musk-thinks-about-twitters-er-xs/

X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I'll be changing my username to 's' as soon as I finish typing this. /s

[–] berkersal@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 2 years ago

A brand that limits users on how many content they can see wouldn't want them to use their search engine when there is a free one that does it better