Generic design system looks generic shocker!
Here is the direct message of them apologizing: https://imgur.com/a/OlNJ5U4
Yes, the design is fairly generic but if you can't see that someone ripped off someone here then you must be trying a bit too hard to not see it.
Notably, in a reply where they're calling out the similar icons, only one is the same while the other two are different, the only similarity that one of them has a graph.
There’s only so many logical ways to layout a graph, breadcrumbs, and table. If the breadcrumbs perform an action, which they seem to do, then you’ll want them center to emphasize that. That’s just basic UX design.
I could argue they copied the query builder from dozens of different sites because they all look identical. It’s a query builder, there’s only a few ways to design and implement one.
The tables straight up are just standard design tables. They could’ve come from Bootstrap at how plain they look. The only thing they have in common in terms of the things they show is costs, which, I mean for two tools used to keep track of cloud spending, seems like a given.
The copy is completely different even if the purpose is the same, and “slicing and dicing data” is a go to phrase in the industry. We used the phrase all the time when developing a graphing tool.
Nothing in that Twitter post is unique. It’s what I, and I’m sure many others would converge on for any sort of tool that interacts with graphed data. Especially for two tools in the same space, there’s only so many ways to show people their cloud costs. If anything, both companies just have extremely generic looking and feeling UIs.
As I have said like half a dozen times now, there’s only so many ways you can show cloud costs. It’s not like this is some innovative space, it’s just showing costs over time on a graph and table. If I were to clean room design an interface for this problem, I would certainly have the same sort of design, layout and copy as these two.
And yes, all of those things are generic, for the reasons I’ve given. Do you have any actual response other than being incredulous that someone has a different opinion than you?