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  1. Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?

    http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669879/can-we-please-move-past-apples-silly-faux-real-uis
    #27946 • 2012-05-31 16:23:57 • acostoss said:

    Your thoughts on this?

    To summarize, Apple's faux-real, or skeuomorphic, designs do more harm than good for usability. While one can argue that having an interface styled to appear similar to its real-life counterpart can make it easier for users to work it, it also lends itself to a lot of usability problems, ones that can be more easily fixed if you abandon the skeuomorphic approach entirely.

  4. #27958 • 2012-05-31 19:12:14 • PigBoss said:

    goddamn it. my internet is fucking with me again. 3rd draft, GO.

    In article "However obvious Apple’s skeuomorphic approach to UI might be, it’s an approach that is hard to argue with. The company is still considered highly innovative, and the success of its products is unprecedented--most would successfully argue that it’s by far the best we have. But aside from aesthetic reaons, it is hard to see how these designs will ever evolve beyond derivative representations. Will they just change color and increase their visual fidelity?"

    tr;dl this ia another way of making Applefags pay more by introducing an "inferior" visual presentation (psuedo-real design) and then asking for more money for a style that people would prefer. well, there are always ppl who like faux-real no matter how much you persuade them. That aside, Apple will probably sue the other companies that "copies" its design lol. Justified for the ppl with stock share of Apple

  5. #27989 • 2012-06-01 02:01:20 • Trev said:

    For the adoption of new technologies, skeuomorphism was once beneficial to create metaphors for items that people would understand (folders, drag-and-drop, pulldowns, etc) and I'm not so certain that it has entirely lost its benefits in that regard in 2012.

  6. #28041 • 2012-06-01 12:41:32 • acostoss said:

    While it hasn't lost its benefits entirely, the current generation in most developed countries has grown up around computers and has adopted different ideas/workflows that haven't a real-life counterpart. If we built more upon these, and rely less on form to dictate the function of a program, we could move to a more efficient future.

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