>>12123002
my pet theory is that it's all zune's fault
zune and windows phone and the whole metro UI on windows 8 were a commercial failure, but I was in university at a time doing a master thesis on interface design adjacent stuff and I can tell you that metro ui was very influential, at least academically and I suspect also on the wider professional design spaces
cynically, I believe it was a way to just avoid designing stuff by pretty much just leaning on strong typography
>everything looks "clean" and "aesthetic" and "minimalist", not "empty" or "boring", we didn't put more stuff there on purpose. the fact that is so much easier to design is a minor bonus. trust me bro
I certainly leaned on that shit HARD for my own work