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Canvases versus Documents

Much web design has reflected that of paper documents: finite with clearly defined edges. But by no means is the canvas style recent, as we can see in Space Jam.

There’s another resizing issue I’ve seen where the container size is big enough to fit the width of the screen, so there ends up being no padding on the left or right side, making the document weird. There’s too much slop on website homepages We can extend the shop analogy to the body sections as well: adding a bunch of Twitter testimonials, random pictures of the app with text, other companies’ logos, and Loom videos tell me very little about whether I’d want to use it. Another vibe shift is happening, and those throwing together slop (no offense to the tools, which are great) hacked together with Tailwind + Cursor + shadcn are immediately noticeable and are a strong indicator of low quality because once a “default” way has been established

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