[seanmcdirmid]

It’s not the designers pushing that, it’s the product managers and marketers. UXDs generally roll their eyes at pure branding stuff.

[yangm97]

Guess it’s a bit of both.

Whenever I said “this is a website, not an app” I would get confused looks from designers.

UX people fight some of the BS, but “looking pretty” usually wins over “being useful”.