When you get a bit older you'll realize that design is to a great extent like fashion, full of the same ebbs and flows and trends with an underlying current of timeless utility that expresses itself in different ways depending where you look.
If there's a new quality to web design that makes it appear even more formulaic than usual I would say it's the presence of frameworks like Bootstrap that let you make something look halfway decent looking with very basic skills and a tiny amount of work. It's certainly never been as easy to get your feet wet in design.
But has innovation stopped? No, it only seems that way if you're under 25 and your brain is still developing so you don't actually have any perspective longer than the last year or two.
When you get a bit older you'll realize that design is to a great extent like fashion, full of the same ebbs and flows and trends with an underlying current of timeless utility that expresses itself in different ways depending where you look.
If there's a new quality to web design that makes it appear even more formulaic than usual I would say it's the presence of frameworks like Bootstrap that let you make something look halfway decent looking with very basic skills and a tiny amount of work. It's certainly never been as easy to get your feet wet in design.
But has innovation stopped? No, it only seems that way if you're under 25 and your brain is still developing so you don't actually have any perspective longer than the last year or two.