I just can't fathom how a multi-billion dollar company like Cloudflare could forego their design standards. They seem to have updated their landing page [0], but it's still very sloppy.
When you do things like that, you can't escape the slope even when you realize your mistake. (Since it's an education company, people notice illiterate garbage).
what really matters the most is the dashboard.
Now they explicitly train people to use the clipboard. Clownflare.
Follow design standards? Fuck no, we need to STAND OUT instead. If you find the design hard to use as a result of not following standards your just an old curmuddgen.
Looking at automated emails I get from Microsoft and GitHub it certainly feels like they are one weird layoff from doing it company-wide.
The worst part is these glassification Tailwind heavy slop almost universally fail WCAG guidelines (and personally, seem hard to read to me because of taking the whispy sans serif thing to its foregone conclusion by almost exclusively using what to me are unreadably thin weights of the already too thin Inter font). The slop is going so quickly backwards for companies that invested in accessibility and these companies need to be taken to task for forgetting design isn't just aesthetics but readability and accessibility.
And honestly, I'm not even that mad at AI. The way these companies are going I'll take an AI that is taught to follow the most basic design guidelines over what most companies shovel out these days.
Like fine, you want to stand out? Use different colour schemes or unique fonts (but like one or at most two fonts). Change your corner radius from time to time to freshen up. There are so many ways to make your UI "different" but still consistent and following basic best practices.
Some of the stuff throw out now a days would fail UI 101 assignments.
Their UI being bad is the least of their problems.
The site is just fine.
Stop already with the AI doomerism.
A college student who is also very clearly (fron the links beyond the blog) a very active and enthusiastic AI user that thinks common (if correctly identified as less than ideal) UI trends from before vibecoding was common are indicators of “AI slop” and not just design being the done by people who aren’t very good at it (which, to be fair, includes but is not limited to AI slop) is unsurprising and nothing like doomerism.
You can disagree with the factual interpretations ans subjective interpretation in the piece without trying to tie it into a completely unrelated social phenomenon.
This page looks like some junior cobbled it together based on a hastily written ticket by some overworked product guy.
Yuck.