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The sterile design language and impossibility of customizing your own software styles in an accessible way kills me
by greenavocado 1y ago
The sterile design language and impossibility of customizing your own software styles in an accessible way kills me
- caseyy 1y agoHah, that's a good point. When I think of it, the first Android skins, like HTC Sense (~3.0), were quite customizable. Every widget had a few stylistic variants, and I think you could even change the look of many components in the OS. Windows was very customizable until around Vista, too. I suppose people don't buy products for their theming features anymore.
- usrusr 1y agoBut winamp theming rested not only on the code allowing arbitrary bitmaps, it also rested on a user interface requiring zero discoverability. At some point people just knew where to click. In hindsight it appears almost surprising that there wasn't a fashion of black on black winamp skins (or maybe I just missed it)