Fashion loops. Warning: colors may explode.

Aesthetic cycles no longer return every twenty years; platforms compress them into seasons. Designers can either chase the loop or understand its mechanics. The better choice is to build systems that can absorb change without losing identity.

The useful question

The point is not to replace one visual rule with another. It is to ask whether the decision still carries meaning after the trend, tool or presentation effect has disappeared.

Design becomes useful when the visible gesture and the system underneath it agree. Taste starts the conversation; consequences decide whether the work lasts.