We've seen this somewhere before...
In 2014, Elliot J. Stokes (a renowned web designer, consultant, and writer) lamented that designers had stopped dreaming, and therefore stopped creating. As a result, all websites looked like twins. Given how many tools and resources we have, it’s a strange thought, don’t you think? But Elliot was right, and he’s not alone in this.
In 2015, Noah Stokes added that web design is losing its soul. We’ve become so accustomed to responsive web design that we haven’t noticed how bogged down we are. In fact, we’re so comfortable in this “swamp” that no one wants to create anything else.
But there are even more pessimistic views. Thus, Sergio Nouvel declared web design dead, thus causing deep indignation of all caring people.
“We are buried under frames and templates,” Sergio said. “All our design models are already mature and overmature, and trying to create something more ‘creative’ from them is probably pointless or even harmful.” He calls The Grid the first link in a chain of automation and artificial intelligence in which web designers play no role.
"The Grid analyzes all your content and determines the best layouts, colors, backgrounds, and images for your site."
Picture this for a second. The Grid – a piece of software – analyzes your content and creates a website based on it. Boom! No designer needed, no fiddling around in SquareSpace, no des