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S/UI/clothing; your argument suggests the move to add color to fabric doesn’t make sense because it is simply fashion and has aught to do with the interface pre
by jhelphenstine 5y ago
S/UI/clothing; your argument suggests the move to add color to fabric doesn’t make sense because it is simply fashion and has aught to do with the interface presented by a shirt. I think the parent comment nails it on subjectivity; the form of a thing is as much a part as its function. The luxury goods industry attests as much.
- flohofwoe 5y agoA functional tool can still look nice, but the function is still more important than the looks, otherwise it's just useless bling (the fashion industry is the perfect example though, they need to sell new stuff each year without actually changing anything important, all they can really do is change pointless details).
- Closi 5y agoA functional tool can look nice, but a tool designed with a “function only” mentality is very unlikely to look nice. Good design is a balance of many factors.
- sqqqqrly 5y agoPoor analogy. A better one for clothing would be to remove the button and zipper from pants for a cleaner look.
- jimbokun 5y agoSo modern UI design is spandex?
- DangitBobby 5y agoIt's removing all buttoned and zippered pants from your store one year and replacing them with spandex one year, then coming back in 5 years and removing all spandex in favor of buttons and zippers.
- mavhc 5y agoElastic does work much better, also suspenders are 10x better than belts
- lowercased 5y agoi generally decide my own clothing. and... if I choose UI X... I would like to keep using it. At some point, I have to adopt someone else's ideas of 'good UI' in order to keep using a computer for 'every day' stuff. At some point, my online banking forces an upgrade, and that means 'new UI', whether I like it or not. I can keep wearing 70s flares and still go in and use a local bank if I chose to.