Every new creative tool brings a wave of bad taste first. The GeoCities-era homepage was full of blinking neon text, half a dozen different typefaces, and animated GIFs drifting across the background. And of course the automatic background music kicked in. In the Photoshop era, lens flare and drop shadow went onto every other design. PowerPoint's achievements have earned galleries of bad design all of their own.
18.1 Human slop
Every new creative tool brings a wave of bad taste first. The GeoCities-era homepage was full of blinking neon text, half a dozen different typefaces, and animated GIFs drifting across the background. And of course the automatic background music kicked in. In the Photoshop era, lens flare and drop shadow went onto every other design. PowerPoint's achievements have earned galleries of bad design all of their own.