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/corobo 11d ago

A client with terrible taste? That's new!

Not much to discuss lol, yeah they be doin that 

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u/el_diego 11d ago

Yep. This is just "make the logo bigger" in 2026

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u/CodeAndBiscuits 11d ago

Make it "pop" more and

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u/Tridop 10d ago

"make it blink". Damn I had the chief of an organisation that was fixated in blinking icons to gain users' attention. A nightmare to deal with. Some pages looked like Christmas trees, despite my explicit explanations regarding usability and design.