Lazy Genericism
Bootstrap is a beautiful piece of work, no doubt. It makes flexible and responsive grid-based layout a piece of cake. It provides transitions and dynamic behaviors without a sweat. It even provides clean, contemporary aesthetics in pre-made components. Add Glyphicons or Font Awesome and you have a web app that will satisfy the CEO built in no time flat.
Of course, you used an accordion panel instead of coming up with something better, because it was easy to do. And the select widgets aren’t exactly what you had in mind, but they were there. Add you used a non-descript document icon for “Add Properties” because there wasn’t a better icon in the set. Oh, and it looks like every other site built with Bootstrap because you started with one of their templates, and you just didn’t take the time to do much customization.
Yes, Bootstrap and its cousins are wonderful things. We should take advantage of them. But please, I beg you, don’t fall into the trap of quick and easy. Don’t forget that your user interface is your brand. Excellence will not be found in lazy genericism.



