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ugh... I loath the skeuomorphic design. A bunch of engineering effort spent just to make digital products looked like the old physical products they killed.
by didip 5y ago
ugh... I loath the skeuomorphic design.
A bunch of engineering effort spent just to make digital products looked like the old physical products they killed.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoWhy get a retina screen to display what like design limitations of low resolution screens? Why do you loathe them? It’s for ease of use, in iOS 6 the notes app that looks like notes or the newsstand app that looks like a news stand it was easy to understand. What does the photos app look like now? A bunch of circular colors to mean what exactly? What about the news app? Used to be a bunch of geometric shapes, now it’s a square slanted candy stripe.
- zeroimpl 5y agoThe actual content (eg pictures, videos and text) all look better on a retina screen. I don’t think people buy retina screens so that the UI elements look prettier.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThat might not be why, but the UI elements looks worst, the apps are unified under uglier UI, and by the logic of content it was an unnecessary design change with less accessibility, more complications to make boring UI that needs explanation and all for no benefit to the user. Just look at the iOS 7 news stand icon or the one that’s a red candy cane stripe versus the iOS 6 news stand icon. Who designed the photos icon and what’s it represent if not just designing for design’s sake? He made it minimalist, harder to use, and forced every iOS UI to congregate under a more flawed design. Pretty elements that highlighted the Retina display’s capabilities in the are now replaced by uglier boring design that was probably a practical scaling solution for ease of designing unified UI that was more developed friendly and less user friendly.