Having moved to iOS 9 As a consequence of the bloated internet forcing me to upgrade to a new phone, I am struggling to tolerate the awfulness that is iOS. Since iOS 7, which I wholeheartedly avoided on the last phone, Apple has burned its right to brag about design brilliance. Apple's decades of research into computer interface design has clearly been scrapped to abide by the demands of "change for the sake of change" and fads.
• iOS 7 is Apple's Ugly Baby
What fads? I'm talking about the wretched flat design fad. It's not that flat design cannot be done well; it surely can, but the majority of examples out there on the web right now exemplify ignorance of basic UI design concepts (such as usability and discoverability). There are lots of beginners, amateurs, and downright lazy people creating the ugly and unusable World Wide Web of the current stretch of years between 2013 and today (as of this writing: November 2015).
I am not the only one so displeased. There are actually people out there with degrees in design and other related and relevant specialist educational focus areas. Oh, but don't go spouting knowledge or fact: these days, with the growing anti-intellectualism (most notably in the USA, but also running rampant around the web), you're likely to have your expert knowledge dismissed, marginalized, or mocked, and your attempt to inform people might be drowned in the vitriol of those who don't have your specialist knowledge (and are amateur designers themselves; remember "do more with less" has resulted in countless specialist jobs being eliminated and those tasks given to existing personnel, such as the "coders"). When exactly did it become so socially politically incorrect to have specialist knowledge? That's for another blog on another day.
As always, don't take my word for it: read the comments of the working professionals in the links provided above. Then read more about a related problem for usability: mystery meat UIs.
• Mystery meat UI design (in Windows and Mac OS X)
• Mystery Meat in iPhoto (yes, this is outdated since Apple replaced iPhoto with the new Photos application, but it's still informative and relevant).
...and the fact that
• Usability on mobile is getting worse (IMO, usability is tumbling into a pit, and I see a snowball rolling downhill to crush and bury it).
• iOS 7 is Apple's Ugly Baby
What fads? I'm talking about the wretched flat design fad. It's not that flat design cannot be done well; it surely can, but the majority of examples out there on the web right now exemplify ignorance of basic UI design concepts (such as usability and discoverability). There are lots of beginners, amateurs, and downright lazy people creating the ugly and unusable World Wide Web of the current stretch of years between 2013 and today (as of this writing: November 2015).
I am not the only one so displeased. There are actually people out there with degrees in design and other related and relevant specialist educational focus areas. Oh, but don't go spouting knowledge or fact: these days, with the growing anti-intellectualism (most notably in the USA, but also running rampant around the web), you're likely to have your expert knowledge dismissed, marginalized, or mocked, and your attempt to inform people might be drowned in the vitriol of those who don't have your specialist knowledge (and are amateur designers themselves; remember "do more with less" has resulted in countless specialist jobs being eliminated and those tasks given to existing personnel, such as the "coders"). When exactly did it become so socially politically incorrect to have specialist knowledge? That's for another blog on another day.
As always, don't take my word for it: read the comments of the working professionals in the links provided above. Then read more about a related problem for usability: mystery meat UIs.
• Mystery meat UI design (in Windows and Mac OS X)
• Mystery Meat in iPhoto (yes, this is outdated since Apple replaced iPhoto with the new Photos application, but it's still informative and relevant).
...and the fact that
• Usability on mobile is getting worse (IMO, usability is tumbling into a pit, and I see a snowball rolling downhill to crush and bury it).
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