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Is it just me or are the UIs of many of these apps wildly inconsistent with the surrounding ecosystem and are not keen on applying the knowledge learned from ma
by Daishiman 16y ago
Is it just me or are the UIs of many of these apps wildly inconsistent with the surrounding ecosystem and are not keen on applying the knowledge learned from manipulating other applications in the environment?
They sure look great, but I have my doubts as to how many of them are truly usable (undeniably, many are probably great).
- codingthewheel 16y agoOn the Mac side, people haven't really learned the benefits of standard look and feel to the degree they have on Windows. Not to say there's no standardization, but in general, Mac apps are a chance for developers to strut their stuff and display cute widgets. MS has spent many multiples of what Apple has spent on UX design, so you get a slightly less flashy, but overall more usable, set of applications on Windows, because of the way the APIs are structured. Where this style of UI really shines is for the iPhone. I don't think anybody still seriously thinks that Mac is preeminent on the desktop. That hasn't been true since .NET, let alone WPF. But on the iOS...Apple's dominance is clear.
- c1sc0 16y ago"MS has spent many multiples of what Apple has spent on UX design". I actually have no clue what windows looks like these days but it certainly used to be the other way around. I did notice that UX consistency has degraded over the last few years in OSX, but I'm not sure I'd call Windows better (again, from my limited experience with corporate windows apps).
- scrod 16y agoWow, this has got to be the most brazen troll I've ever seen.
- lemming 16y agoAbsolutely. Plex may be pretty but it has the most confusing UI I've ever used. I've given it up in frustration twice now, just because it's so hard to add media to it (which should be a basic function in a media player, you'd think).