>> Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake. > You keep saying this, and it's just not true. You saying it's not true doesn't make

>> Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake. > You keep saying this, and it's just not true. You saying it's not true doesn't make it so. > The extreme skeuomorphism in the older iOS versions was just as maligned as flat design is today. Citation needed. As I remember, most pundits simply had some beef with a few extreme cases of skeuomorphism in iOS 6. Nobody advocated that Apple throw the baby out with the bath water as they did in iOS 7. > It's important to remember that the move away from pull-down menus was informed by a good deal of end-user research Again, citation needed. Windows 95, now that's informed by a good deal of research. Everything Microsoft did starting with Windows XP? Not so much.