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Comment by thallavajhula | Hacker News Reader

Is it just me or do all the proprietary AI model companies have their blogs styled to have earthy calming tones? This seems like a strategy.

Exhibit A-C

A. https://claude.com/blog B. https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-insi... C. https://cursor.com/grok

Only OpenAI's blog looks like the WordPress _Twenty Twenty Five_ theme.

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The Gemini team uses the standard Google blue and white, which I would have thought Microsoft would be inclined to do as well

Not surprising considering out of all the things MS is known for, UX consistency is certainly not one of them. They have probably the weakest commitment to a design language across all the big tech cos.

MAI is supposed to have its own design language/brand identity that is unrelated to the overall Microsoft brand. It has its own fonts, logo, colors, etc. The weird thing is that consumer Copilot, which is (or was) developed at MAI (as opposed to business/M365 Copilot which is developed in Redmond and designed based on the regular Microsoft stuff) also has its own design language which is different from the regular Microsoft stuff and different from the MAI stuff.

tbh all of this has always struck me as an ego thing from the MAI team, who are mostly based in Silicon Valley, not Redmond, and think of themselves as too cool for Microsoft

Wow, no wonder Copilot looked so out of place within the Windows UI. It's not the only core app that blatantly goes against Windows' design language either- Movie Maker and later the built-in video editor in Photos both died for ClipChamp which is some horrible, out-of-place web-based video editor with a mandatory login and feels like it has absolutely no relation to Windows. I'm surprised people from above don't enforce at least basic UI elements that look like they belong to the same product (forget about using the same UI framework across the OS)

and it seems this site was generated with ai and then not reviewed before publishing. the layout of the content below the header doesn't really make sense and the "LI X FB" for LinkedIn, X, and Facebook is super unintuitive until you click one - and even after clicking one, i thought it was a collaboration between LinkedIn and Facebook tbh. then the animations are jarring and don't obey my reduced motion system settings, which isnt uncommon but i would expect it from Microsoft. finally, the "Explore all jobs" button at the bottom is just bizarrely designed and animated.

It's better than Corporate Memphis, at least.

That's my biggest fear after LLMs can pass the pelican-riding-a-bicycle test... Corporate Memphis art is a half step beyond and there's bound to be a _lot_ of it in their upstream data.

It's a trend that signals a form of non-chronically-online intellectualism. Feels reminiscent of intellectual slop [1] content on the web that is in vogue

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dEYvdnwB4MM

I despise that kind of shorts/reels/videos. Like who talks that fast and my brain immediately lose interest and it's obnoxious and unnatural.

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