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I think apple was smart with the way they went mobile, in that they didn't really try to carry over any of their exiting OSX UI. Often it is 10x harder to unlea
by achy 15y ago
I think apple was smart with the way they went mobile, in that they didn't really try to carry over any of their exiting OSX UI. Often it is 10x harder to unlearn habits than to form new ones. If I'm presented with something that is 'exactly like before except for a bunch of glaring omissions and additions' it will feel like the uncanny valley and getting used to things will be much harder. Apple went for the 'Everything that you do in iOS is new but seamlessly intuitive' route which lends a reasonable learning curve and more importantly no steep 'unlearning' curve.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThis is very true and applies in a lot of ways e.g. Building an application to try to take customers away from an incumbent. I've tried to use Gimp and LibreOffice, but they both are close enough to Photoshop and MS Office that I can't ever learn their "dialects", which are very close to the originals', but not quite. Instead, I constantly feel like I'm fighting them. When I moved to Pages instead, I was forced to learn a whole new language, and so that's what happens. No remapping, just mapping.