Basecamp has this product ethos - Basecamp v3 and Hey! feels like this looks

Nice, I’ve never used it – aesthetic like Craigslist?

Yeah, felt in a good or weird way? I haven’t been on Facebook in ages…

none specific – with every recipe website i visit i scroll until i find the “print recipe” button (all of them have one) and then use a PDF of the recipe. to extend the analogy in the image, it’s like walking into someone else’s kitchen and looking for the silverware drawer lol

i feel like the kitschy, lived-in vibe comes from pretty poorly designed platforms that get customized a bunch by creators. but it’s pretty highly usable because all of these sites are roughly laid out the same way

The issue is, character isn’t scalable. Uniformity is cheap 😢

Love this! The “poorly designed” but get “customized” nails it. Makes me wonder if it’s actually poorly designed or if it’s a design that’s maybe just unintentionally been given room to evolve? There isn’t much customization these days and that feels like the key ingredient

Definitely. It’s what first came to my mind too. This has some warmth tho? Craigslist gives more brutalist parking garage?

If Apple sold us all on postmodern minimalism, is there space for a kitschy, lived-in, highly usable aesthetic for the internet? If this photo were a service on the internet, what is it?

I logged into Facebook for the first time in ages recently and this is exactly how it felt. Idk what happened there.

i keep thinking about this post lol. this is so unique because on so many products nobody can leave a trace for others to see. the only thing i can think of are products like figma – as messy or clean as you want it to be with whatever organization works for you

Yeah! It felt glued together! A lot of playful energy…

I like this! Any specific ones? What about them is it for you?

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