The Fall of the Designer: The Fad of Laziness and Ignorance Prevails

I just read a fantastic series of articles that, unfortunately, showed me that things are even worse than I realized with regard to the business of design. Instead of summarizing it here, I'm just going to point you to the original content. It's in multiple parts and I recommend all of them.

• Fall of the Designer Part I: Fashionable Nonsense

• Fall of the Designer Part II: Pixel Pushers

• Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design

• Fall of the Designer Part IV: Credible Threats

• Fall of the Designer Part V: Self-flagellation

Another great rant about Apple destroying design

"Minimalism in software is achieved by simplifying feature sets, not stripping away pixels. In software, affordances are everything. And all affordances are made of pixels. It’s not minimalism to rip away the very things your users need. It’s sadism.THE DIRECTION OF IOS 7, 8 AND 9 IS SIMPLY WRONG.This is not an aesthetic argument. It’s wrong based on 40+ years of computer-human interaction research. It’s wrong based on 30+ years of Apple HIG."

Go read "Destroying Apple’s Legacy..."

PS: Hey Apple: WTF does text selection on websites suck unbelievable amounts of ass in iOS??