Comment by altmanaltman

I wrote a blog on this focusing on the frutiger aero style and how/why we moved from making the desktop look like a real/character-filled space to the whole "best ui is no ui" and flat design thinking. Fortunately, it seems like style is coming back in... style.

The blog post: https://decodingvibes.com/blog/genz-and-frutiger-aero/