I grew up with simple interfaces. I came up through the monochrome Macs. I loved the early Apple Human Interface Guidelines. I think the first time I said "w

I grew up with simple interfaces. I came up through the monochrome Macs. I loved the early Apple Human Interface Guidelines. I think the first time I said "whoa" was when I saw Enlightenment. Suddenly excess ornamentation was fun. I even advised Steve Jobs (if he read USENET) that "eye candy rules." So now maybe we've all been through that cycle, and eye candy, excess ornamentation, over the top skeumorphism, is falling away. That's probably ok.