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The fake 3d is actually very useful in communicating what is a button or another interactive piece of the interface and what's not. The modern clean uis where e
by abraxas 2y ago
The fake 3d is actually very useful in communicating what is a button or another interactive piece of the interface and what's not. The modern clean uis where everything is a thin rectangle or just text that you are supposed to click are a nightmare.
- alabastervlog 2y agoOld screen caps of UIs with depth feel so relaxing to look at, and I don’t think it’s just a nostalgia effect. It’s like there’s always just a little extra brain power and attention being used by modern flat UIs, and you get to shut that off when you look at a depth-enhanced UI.
- rbanffy 2y agoThe most important part is that controls are consistent across applications. In that regard, tools and libraries that implement some look and feel rather than deferring it to the underlying environment are a disservice to users. Windows, for instance, has dozens of ways to do that, and you can find parts of Windows that use an archeological version of the controls. Nobody, it seems, bothered to reimplement the older APIs on top of the new ones.
- rbanffy 2y agoI agree. Early Macs had to give buttons a 2D distinctive look. A good thing was that the look and feel were part of the OS and not the application, so everything would be consistent.