Interactive design should be interactive. I've always believe this. It's in the name. The very concept of interactive design should be that its user should be a

Interactive design should be interactive. I've always believe this. It's in the name. The very concept of interactive design should be that its user should be allowed to change it, and that's true of essentially any serious software application that's stood the test of time. They are malleable. The current, Apple-inspired "we know better" is just a cultural aberration that emerged from the post-iPhone landscape. Everyone's thought was "the iPhone only has one button". Well yeah but it had a huge touchscreen that could do about anything. It was malleable. Software must be malleable, particularly in bigger screens.