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@researchfairy @harshad sometime in the late 2000s UI design started to get really, really wrong
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@Revertron @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad You think design isn’t a real job? 🤣🤣 . Apple is the most valuable company on earth with a current market cap of $3.030 Trillion. This is primarily due to their prioritisation and investment in product design. As Steve Jobs once said “Design is not just how it looks and feels like, design is how it works.”  @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad I blame Jon Ive and Steve Jobs for favouring overly minimalist design. I like the idea of buying a computer that isn’t covered with stickers, but hiding the UI in a mysterious way is user hostile. @MichaelPorter @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Steve Jobs loved the #skeuomorphic GUI. It was Windows which started flat design and Jon Ive taking over the software design at Apple changed everything from beautiful to designless boring flat. @MetalSnake @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Yup, and Scott Forstall let that light shine brightly while he was in charge of iOS… But Steve was a big fan of Ive and ultimately had say over the direction that Ive took the look of the Mac and its OS. Disclaimer—I’m not an Apple historian, just grumpy. @MichaelPorter @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad The timeline is like this: Steve Jobs died. Scott f* up Maps. Tim Cook fired Scott because of it and assigned Ive to GUI design. And we got the ugly mess we have today. @MetalSnake @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Ah, okay - more than ten years on and I’m already mixing up dates 😊  @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Touchscreen killed UI. Also, streaming killed fixed media by design, why sell to the plebes when you can rent to them and gouge them in perpetuity? |
@thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad
It's the designers. They just need to make something new with no regard to current best solutions already invented. Othewise they will starve 😕 ...or will try to get real job :)