The Dribbble Syndrome
With the recent popularity of Dribbble, the copycat syndrome might be
gaining momentum. On Dribbble, a designer reveals a sample of something
they’re working on, and then the style of that small snippet starts
spreading. The context and strategy underlying it are unknown, yet the
style is still viewed as beautiful in and of itself. The designer may have taken
hours, days or weeks to arrive at the decisions that informed the design,
but now that it’s out in the wild, the snippet becomes nothing more than
eye candy.
Dribbble shows out-of-context design shots. Is this a bad thing?