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Thankfully they've fixed this in Mountain Lion, but the "page turning" effect in the Lion version of iCal was for me an example of infuriatingly poor design. Wa
by jsdalton 14y ago
Thankfully they've fixed this in Mountain Lion, but the "page turning" effect in the Lion version of iCal was for me an example of infuriatingly poor design. Want to scoot ahead eight months? Please wait one second between each month while we execute this fancy page turning animation!
It's design decisions like this, which really ramped up in Lion, that I think are fueling the present-day reaction against skeumorphism.
- KirinDave 14y agoIndeed, pagination us a particularly irritating decision. We get all the penalties (non-infinite view, poor visual seek, discrete scrolling) with none of the benefits (bulk age turn, navigate by physical feature, detachability). The calendar app is a work of supreme laziness on the part of its designers, and the excuse seems to be that it is pandering to a class of user both looked down upon and considered unlikely to actually use the app.