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The "coherent whole" is more in demand than ever before. Just look at the Android and iOS ecosystems with super hard rules how things have to behave and look in
by ganafagol 5y ago
The "coherent whole" is more in demand than ever before. Just look at the Android and iOS ecosystems with super hard rules how things have to behave and look in order to be admitted. They just put the burden on the app dev instead of a crew of distro maintainers.
- CRConrad 5y agoIf you define "demand" as hard orders from the warden of your walled garden, yes. But that's not how the concept is normally used. Personally, for instance, I'd have been perfectly happy if at least a few apps had stayed with the Android UI of a few versions back[1], before they went all flat and gesture-based. There was no demand from me, as a consumer, to imitate Apple's UI. ___ [1]: And no, that's not outmoded "skeumorphism". That concept means "imitation of physical objects", like that shell on top of Windows that was a picture of a room, with a picture of a Rolodex on top of a dedktop etc etc. In the decades since ~1985 a separate visual grammar had developed, where a gray rounded rectangle with "highlights" on the upper and left edges, "shadows" on the lower and right edges, and text in the middle meant "button" in the sense of "click here to perform an action", not any more in the original skeumorphic sense of "this is a picture of a bit of a 1980s stereo receiver".