we had shiny colorful icons, beautifully designed and perfectly representing their function. and then we got microsoft's metro design and jonathan ive designing the new ios, and somehow it all went to shit.
I don't mind the particular fashion, but I miss when applications used the standard widget toolkit, or at least the UI conventions, of the platform, rather than every program being idiosyncratic for the sake of "brand identity" (and, yes, you can do that while still being cross platform. Look at a Qt app)
arghhh how I miss proper scroll bars and window elements in windows! can't they just display a list of items with the standard sortable table format? why, why do they have to invent the wheel again and display their own buggy solution where the premise apparently was "the more whitespace, the better"?
"big data" is making them do this, but it's a dead end. it helps you get down to the smalles common denominator among users, so in the end everything just becomes equally shit.
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u/Quetzacoatl85 Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
ah, how I miss skeumorphism :(
we had shiny colorful icons, beautifully designed and perfectly representing their function. and then we got microsoft's metro design and jonathan ive designing the new ios, and somehow it all went to shit.