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Thanks for this. Design trends really are detached from any sensible reality. They're turning good designs into bad designs whenever a site tries to modernize themselves to match these trends.

Here's my rule for web app design: 90% of the page, by area, should be somehow derived from the app's dynamic content, versus static filler content from the designer, no matter how pretty the filler is.

Second rule: Designers, stop calling your OWN apps sexy or beautiful. Would you walk up to someone that you just met, and tell them that you're beautiful while they're looking directly at you? What the f## are you designers thinking?