Actually, thanks for this - it's the first time I've seen a good concise attempt at justifying the modern "minimalistic" UI approach.
Unfortunately, I hugely disagree with just about every point on the list.
colours should be limited and subdued for user interface elements so as to focus attention on content. Bright colours and animation are intended to call attention to important information.
Utter nonsense. I was never distracted by icons that had colour in them. I find it bizarre that anyone does get distracted by that. Perhaps they have ADHD. Whatsmore, UI elements are often important and get used a lot! Don't assume that just because it's not classed as "content", it's basically irrelevant. The removal of colour and complexity in icons has really pissed me off and made it a lot harder for my brain to discern what the heck an icon is supposed to mean. I am NOT distracted one iota by a colourful icon.
textures, gradients, transparency and drop shadow effects for the sake of visual flare cause visual confusion and eyestrain. Important elements get lost in the clutter otherwise
Only if you really overdo it. Some amount of this stuff is absolutely fine (see Windows 7).
ability to customize is often good but there can be too much of a good thing. If there are 100 "themes" or "skins"
So have a decent default skin, and let the people who want to apply another skin do so (see Winamp). There is no problem here.
Skeuomorphic Design has no business in UI Design
Yes, making knobs look like physical knobs looks dumb, so to some extent this is valid. But it doesn't extend to making every icon totally abstract. The brain has all sorts of images from the real world and it makes perfect sense to have icons and widgets often resemble stuff the brain is already familiar with. Any attempt to go against this for the sake of some holy design guideline is guaranteed to make the UI less user friendly.
I like unintrusive, post-shiny user interfaces. I really prefer flat UIs.
God knows why. I much prefer something like Windows 7. Why would you want to get rid of or reduce visual clues that tell you where the edges of components are, their importance, whether they're clickable, etc? It's bizarre that anyone wants that.
Phones and tablets explains "Too much white space", "Cannot be controlled by keyboard", "Very little customizability if any", and maybe "Often awful fonts suitable only for HiDPI devices".
What about "Text is indistinguishable from controls", "Text in full-CAPS", "Certain controls cannot be easily understood", and especially the god-awful limited colour palettes they like to use nowadays? That's just hipster UX people thinking the current fashion towards this stuff is cool, and damn anyone who disagrees.
I frankly don't like the idea of every goddamn appliance sending out radio waves. It's a total waste of energy, in most cases utterly unnecessary, and may even possibly have negative health consequences. Stop putting fucking wifi in everything!!!
Samsung literally copy everything Apple do. I've got an LG G3 and I don't plan to ever upgrade unless necessary. Screw buying the "latest model" so I can get a shittier phone.
Windows is great for those people that want to get things done and want to treat the computer as a productivity tool.
Windows 10 has an ugly UI with smaller, less-colourful icons, spits ads in your face, keeps resetting your telemetry preferences (which can't even stop all telemetry), and forces you to reboot regularly. If that's good for productivity, what the hell is bad?
And all the "help" icons in the corner, instead of opening up a proper help application with info on the current page, simply open up Edge with a Bing search for "Windows 10 help". That made me LOL.
You really should move all your operations exclusively onto the anonymous overlay networks and never ever touch clearnet again.
What would you say aboutcjdns? It claims to fully encrypt everything and only communicate with trusted peers, and people using it say it is very fast, but it still seems to be quite small and obscure. Does anyone here think it looks like a viable future protocol?
Worse yet are the people that are not on facebook missing all the opinions and interactions of those that are. Sometimes that means missing out on current events or the latest gossip
Are you joking? Not being on Facebook so you can get their daily pro-establishment propaganda in your face and keep up to date on the latest "gossip"? How about, no, I don't need that shit and I'm better off without it. And happier. That's the kind of social interaction I don't need.
Sooo why did Cameron, May, and the vast majority of people who passed this law both want to and campaign for staying in the EU? Bit of a hole in your logic there.
Since it's been a more than a couple of hundred years since the USA has had to deal with a King I suppose a reminder of how petty and spiteful autocrats can be was due:(
This shit is just so crazy. We NEED to teach critical thinking to our children.
How about something like, "Now Johnny, just because a big media company says something is false doesn't necessarily mean it's false. Look at the evidence for yourself before dismissing it, and certainly don't dismiss other people as 'crazy conspiracy theorists' just because they're considering the information too."
Why is everyone who entertains the idea that Pizzagate is true a "psycho"? You guys should realize that you have been conditioned to dismiss people whom the mainstream media are telling you to dismiss. It's perfectly reasonable to entertain ideas, even outlandish ones, rather than dismissing them out of hand presumably because it's less mentally stressful for you to do so.
He was trolling, moron. He was trying to get an extremely negative reaction to a proposal that HILLARY CLINTON made in the 90s. And he proved his point.
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Actually, thanks for this - it's the first time I've seen a good concise attempt at justifying the modern "minimalistic" UI approach.
Unfortunately, I hugely disagree with just about every point on the list.
colours should be limited and subdued for user interface elements so as to focus attention on content. Bright colours and animation are intended to call attention to important information.
Utter nonsense. I was never distracted by icons that had colour in them. I find it bizarre that anyone does get distracted by that. Perhaps they have ADHD. Whatsmore, UI elements are often important and get used a lot! Don't assume that just because it's not classed as "content", it's basically irrelevant. The removal of colour and complexity in icons has really pissed me off and made it a lot harder for my brain to discern what the heck an icon is supposed to mean. I am NOT distracted one iota by a colourful icon.
textures, gradients, transparency and drop shadow effects for the sake of visual flare cause visual confusion and eyestrain. Important elements get lost in the clutter otherwise
Only if you really overdo it. Some amount of this stuff is absolutely fine (see Windows 7).
ability to customize is often good but there can be too much of a good thing. If there are 100 "themes" or "skins"
So have a decent default skin, and let the people who want to apply another skin do so (see Winamp). There is no problem here.
Skeuomorphic Design has no business in UI Design
Yes, making knobs look like physical knobs looks dumb, so to some extent this is valid. But it doesn't extend to making every icon totally abstract. The brain has all sorts of images from the real world and it makes perfect sense to have icons and widgets often resemble stuff the brain is already familiar with. Any attempt to go against this for the sake of some holy design guideline is guaranteed to make the UI less user friendly.
I like unintrusive, post-shiny user interfaces. I really prefer flat UIs.
God knows why. I much prefer something like Windows 7. Why would you want to get rid of or reduce visual clues that tell you where the edges of components are, their importance, whether they're clickable, etc? It's bizarre that anyone wants that.
Phones and tablets explains "Too much white space", "Cannot be controlled by keyboard", "Very little customizability if any", and maybe "Often awful fonts suitable only for HiDPI devices".
What about "Text is indistinguishable from controls", "Text in full-CAPS", "Certain controls cannot be easily understood", and especially the god-awful limited colour palettes they like to use nowadays? That's just hipster UX people thinking the current fashion towards this stuff is cool, and damn anyone who disagrees.
That's like saying "only 3 of the 4 jet engines have blown up, we're still fine"...
I frankly don't like the idea of every goddamn appliance sending out radio waves. It's a total waste of energy, in most cases utterly unnecessary, and may even possibly have negative health consequences. Stop putting fucking wifi in everything!!!
A good start to reducing gas emissions by 66% would be for the SNP to stop talking.
Easier? Probably millions of wasted man hours and you call it easier?
Microsoft keep doing that with their new "features" and people keep paying them.
Samsung literally copy everything Apple do. I've got an LG G3 and I don't plan to ever upgrade unless necessary. Screw buying the "latest model" so I can get a shittier phone.
Some real furious turd polishing going on right there...
No deal until I can disable all telemetry and prohibit forced reboots.
The high use of Chrome was triggered by issues with Firefox (which I think have been well managed by now).
Oh, did they back out Australis finally?
Windows is great for those people that want to get things done and want to treat the computer as a productivity tool.
Windows 10 has an ugly UI with smaller, less-colourful icons, spits ads in your face, keeps resetting your telemetry preferences (which can't even stop all telemetry), and forces you to reboot regularly. If that's good for productivity, what the hell is bad?
And all the "help" icons in the corner, instead of opening up a proper help application with info on the current page, simply open up Edge with a Bing search for "Windows 10 help". That made me LOL.
You really should move all your operations exclusively onto the anonymous overlay networks and never ever touch clearnet again.
What would you say about cjdns? It claims to fully encrypt everything and only communicate with trusted peers, and people using it say it is very fast, but it still seems to be quite small and obscure. Does anyone here think it looks like a viable future protocol?
Worse yet are the people that are not on facebook missing all the opinions and interactions of those that are. Sometimes that means missing out on current events or the latest gossip
Are you joking? Not being on Facebook so you can get their daily pro-establishment propaganda in your face and keep up to date on the latest "gossip"? How about, no, I don't need that shit and I'm better off without it. And happier. That's the kind of social interaction I don't need.
Actually that sounds like the kind of thing a plumber could fix.
And what is Aleppo?
That's why I get boners all the time. Oh, wait...
http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/resources/images/5233955.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery
Sooo why did Cameron, May, and the vast majority of people who passed this law both want to and campaign for staying in the EU? Bit of a hole in your logic there.
Since it's been a more than a couple of hundred years since the USA has had to deal with a King I suppose a reminder of how petty and spiteful autocrats can be was due :(
You've had Obama, wasn't that enough of a lesson?
Um, yeah... "coding is easy" if your idea of coding is moving a few speech bubbles around to reskin some incredibly lame Pong/Arkanoid clone.
This shit is just so crazy. We NEED to teach critical thinking to our children.
How about something like, "Now Johnny, just because a big media company says something is false doesn't necessarily mean it's false. Look at the evidence for yourself before dismissing it, and certainly don't dismiss other people as 'crazy conspiracy theorists' just because they're considering the information too."
Why is everyone who entertains the idea that Pizzagate is true a "psycho"? You guys should realize that you have been conditioned to dismiss people whom the mainstream media are telling you to dismiss. It's perfectly reasonable to entertain ideas, even outlandish ones, rather than dismissing them out of hand presumably because it's less mentally stressful for you to do so.
I'll bet you can't point to a single incident ever where it's been used to censor anti-government statements.
I certainly can. How about:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-springs-to-action-over-hate-speech-against-migrants/2016/01/06/6031218e-b315-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html?utm_term=.bd8dc4da42ab
"In a country whose Nazi past led to some of the strictest laws in the West protecting minorities from people inciting hatred, prosecutors are launching investigations into inflammatory comments as judges dole out fines, even probation time, to the worst offenders."
or...
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/08/german-couple-sentenced-migrant-critical-facebook-group/
"A German couple were taken to court and sentenced after they created a Facebook group that criticised migrants and the government's mass migration policy."
He was trolling, moron. He was trying to get an extremely negative reaction to a proposal that HILLARY CLINTON made in the 90s. And he proved his point.