Slashdot Mirror
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com)
ColdWetDog writes: Co.Design has an article by two early Apple designers on how the company has lost its way, and quite frankly, lost its marbles when it comes to user interface design. In the search for a minimalist, clean design, it has forgotten time honored UI principles and made it harder for people to use Apple products. As someone who has followed computer UI evolution since the command line and who has used various Apple products for a number of years, the designers' concerns really hit home for me.
Of course, Apple isn't the only company out there who makes UI mistakes. And it is notable that the article has totally annoying, unstoppable GIFs that do nothing to improve understanding. User Interfaces are hard, but it would be nice to have everybody take a few steps back from the precipice.
Of course, Apple isn't the only company out there who makes UI mistakes. And it is notable that the article has totally annoying, unstoppable GIFs that do nothing to improve understanding. User Interfaces are hard, but it would be nice to have everybody take a few steps back from the precipice.
Drag all icons off the launcher bar. Drag command prompt to launcher bar. Open up as many command windows as will fit on your screen. Boom. Done. Well, you could also optionally set your bash profile to start emacs in the command window, depending on your UI preferences.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I find it funny that people are complaining about inscrutiable icons on a site where the very name of the site sounds like the command prompt.
That's because you can always type "command --help" and figure out what a command does. Or "man command." It's clear, discoverable, and consistent. Whereas this beautiful icon set has no particular explanation..........
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
....because speech-to-text is a solved problem now, and always works.
If you really insist on doing so, you can feel free to be the alpha testers for this non-working feature, and graciously supply multiple samples of your voice, to be analyzed with millions of others, so that this problem can be possibly solved in the future.
In the mean time, some of us need to use our computers for work.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
One may as well transmit it in ancient Hebrew
Does that mean I finally get a Hebrew speech to text that sort of works? Cool!
The fact it's ancient Hebrew kinda sucks, but I think I'll take that over the crummy solutions we currently have.
Shachar
Oh, the good web browsers have all died already.
IE has been pants-on-head retarded since IE9.
Chrome's fame went to it's head, and now it's all strung out on bad design philosophy and arrogance. Only a matter of time until it dies.
Mozilla used to be lawful evil, but has injected its self with Chrome DNA so many times that it morphed into a flaming fox and became chaotic evil.
Opera is an undead paladin... It used to be so holy and pure, but now it has turned. Once the holy magic of Netscape filled its body, as it did Mozilla's. The evil power of webkit flows strongly through this one, as it does through all 'modern' browsers.
Safari is the last dark weapon Sauron forged before his death.
Three tabs for the Millenians under the sky
Seven for the neck-beards in their basements of stone
Nine for Windows users, doomed to die
One for Dark Lord Jobs on his throne
In the land of Cupertino, where shadows lie.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Why do I have to click through your links to figure out what you're linking to?
Design lessons from Apple?
Bad.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"