[parksy]

Kind of agree (as a developer who appreciates art) - right now we're constraining ourselves to grid-based layouts. Having been in web professionally for 15 years and recreationally for 25 years, I've seen UI conventions change a lot as technology, form factors and global design trends change.

So modern tools like sketch work for grids, mobile responsive, yada yada which is much better than using photoshop as the design sits closer to the canvas it will be rendered on. As a developer, yay that works great for me! And also it's a huge middle finger to those designers who just built stupid impossible pointless UIs in the 90s and 2000s.

But it's also very constraining for the designer, especially given how far standards have come, and it's almost a given that someone is going to come along and Bauhaus the shit out of UI.

I really enjoyed the challenge of implementing a truly creative design on the web, but there has been a general convergence towards a convenient middle point where the designs are constrained by development requirements, at least in the way the tools are geared.

That's not to say a great artist can't create something amazing but if we have to teach all our creatives that they must conform to this particular way of thinking, then we're cutting the industry short in a bad way I think.

I guess the next thing will be a sass or js library called bauhaus.js. Or is that just DOM + CSS?

[HeWhoLurksLate]

> it's almost a given that someone is going to come along and Bauhaus the shit out of UI.

I nearly fell out of my chair of laughter when I read that.

Out of curiosity, do you mean this in a positive or a negative way?