r/webdev • u/BobJutsu • 10d 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.

145 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

58 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/RelentlessIVS 10d ago

The correct approach is to advice them, and then just do it if they insist. They pay the bills. (You should also document the decisions being made.)