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Current design fashion tends toward whitespace, a lot of iconography, less text, and often thinner and lighter typography.

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Yeah, and it sucks - and I think any web designer who does this is not deserving of the term "designer"

There is a lot more to "design" in web than some stupid visual trendiness ; its the entire reason we have two different phrases: UI & UX...

UX is how we experience the content, UI being how content is presented to us.

Good UI builds a good UX. Good UX builds understanding and relationship to the user's mind to the content.

One of the things you're fighting against is that a lot of people just don't engage if there's a lot of text. I write a fair bit for our marketing department and we basically never publish the 3000-4000 word whitepapers that were routine when I joined the company any longer. Even reports I write based on survey data are fairly light on the word count because people just don't read the longer pieces.

The problem isn't that websites should have more text; it's that they should have more content, using things other than whitespace to establish a visual hierarchy.

Exactly ; the real sublime is that the human mind, in its current iteration is a Pattern Recognignation Engine With Amnesia

but the key skill that the Human has is the speed between visual correlation to cognition of the library of thoughts available.

So obviously a person who does not have that connect, will fail to real-ize the scenario visualized.

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