>Is it time to address to the elephant in the room yet? UIs are constantly ripping eachother off, all over the place. What would be considered relatively diff

>Is it time to address to the elephant in the room yet? UIs are constantly ripping eachother off, all over the place. What would be considered relatively different UIs to us are in the big picture very, very similar. When a particular execution of UI makes good use of solid principles, you can expect to see it everywhere else. Things that work, work, and train users to expect it. In this Apple showed us the lines along which grouping in a control panel make sense. So to answer your question, its not that we need to acknowledge the elephant. We have, and we happen to like the elephant so much that we've gotten accustomed to it. So accustomed that we don't need to keep pointing and going "Hey guys, theres an elephant in here". You'd just be met with "yup".