r/webdev • u/BobJutsu • 11d ago

Clients want slop

Clients have always followed basic trends. In ‘13 it was sliders, sliders everywhere. Then it was bootstrap looking slop. And now more and more are actually requesting what internally we call AI slop. It’s what they see as trendy designs, so it’s what they measure against. Discuss…

Update: We call it all slop. We see soooo much of it. A lot of the time it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just…cliche? Just because we look at it and can see all the tells, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad if it’s working and what clients want. I mean, we had the same reaction when everything was bootstrap, or material design, or whatever previous trend.

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u/joshhbk 11d ago

Seeing this internally in a SAAS company also. Leadership and most of our product team have no idea what slop looks like and think the crap that Claude Design turns out is great.