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As an aside, I really feel like Apple is losing the plot with their latest batch of UIs. Wooden end panels, birch bookshelves, the glossy reflective dock, leath
by cageface 15y ago
As an aside, I really feel like Apple is losing the plot with their latest batch of UIs. Wooden end panels, birch bookshelves, the glossy reflective dock, leather-bound notebooks etc, all smack of a lack of imagination and an timid need to convey value in outmoded terms.
- andrewf 15y agoIt's called skeumorphism. You're not the only one. http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-to-do-now/ http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-t...
- cageface 15y agoWhat are these but misguided coddles, patronizing crutches, interactively horseless carriages? Nailed it. Great article. Apple's hardware is as beautiful as ever but their software UI seems to have gone right of the rails. I wish Google's wasn't aping that dumb page curl effect in their own books app.
- pittsburgh 15y agoHoward Roark (of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead) would hate where Apple is taking their design. From the book: "His buildings are austere, logical, perfect, each a single thought in stone. He believes that buildings, like men, have souls, and that no part of a building should in any way betray its soul. No building should borrow its parts from others or apologize for its own shape. No building should present a false front." And another quote: "The buildings in these drawings are like none ever built on earth. They seem severe and simple at first glance, but closer observation reveals the strict tension of thought and method, a cold, beautiful logic behind each wall and pillar. Every building seems to have a soul." I hope Apple turns down the woodgrain knob and cranks up the cold, beautiful, and logical knob in their future designs.