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If we're using fashion as an analogy, it's kind of a mixed bag.

There's both this type of fashion: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c0/66/12/c06612029...

...and this type of fashion: http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/20140521/640/fashion_runway...

out there.

Things can be fashionable, yet crisp and usable. Things can also be crazy, stupid (to most), and groundbreaking (to a few). Put another way, fashion currently dominates, but that would be okay since we don't need to sacrifice good visual design in the name of performance any more.

Unfortunately:

* People get lazy. * People don't user test. * People like to follow trends. * Designers and developers get micromanaged.

...along with all of the other monkey wrenches that most developers and designers have gotten used to. People end up building cool-looking websites that aren't as usable as they should be.



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