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No it doesn't.

• TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  Mine says "Photos" above it. But what has actually happened is a mess of inconsistent designs. Older apps still use skeuomorphism. Newer apps copy the flat look. Skeuomorphism implemented a design principle - discoverability. You could argue with the choices made for specific icons, but there was a consistent goal - to make the OS as usable as possible. The flat look is an anti-pattern - fashion over discoverability. The point seems to be to allow Sir Jony to impress everyone with his aesthetic skillz. User experience has become secondary to internal politics. That's a huge problem for a company like Apple, because it'a fundamental shift in focus. And there have been obvious effects. Watch isn't doing brilliantly, precisely because the user experience is nothing special. iOS is creaking under the weight of new features apparently added with no overall strategy, many of which remain invisible to users because the literally never find them. MacOS is going the same way. Some of the new features are certainly welcome. But the Apple UX generally is suffering badly - from bugs, from questionable design choices, from popular products like Logic and FCP that have been cut down, then more or less abandoned. There's no one in charge to obsessively fine tune the conflicting needs of product momentum, reliability, UX, and aesthetics. Jobs was very good at that. Cook doesn't even seem to realise there's an issue.