[dba-Tech] Skeuomorphic UIs are dead? Apple to follow MS Win8 UI design principles with iOS7?

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Jun 11 04:08:29 CDT 2013


 Hi Arthur --

You and your friend better adapt - that seems to be the mainstream trend:

"Apple Publishes iOS 7 Transition Guide To Help Developers Adopt Flat Design"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-publishes-ios-7-transition-guide-to-help-developers-adopt-flat-design/


-- Shamil

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:53 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
>At the moment I have here a friend's new Dell laptop with Win8 installed,
>and I guess it was a good idea to retire, because I find this UI the most
>balling and frustrating experience of my life. So does my friend, who owns
>this new laptop. She's asked me to reformat it and convert it back to
>Windows 7. At first I was dubious about this move, but after the last few
>days, I'm beginning to think that she is right. AFAICS, the whole concept
>behind this OS is asinine. As for tablets, Android on an Acer or Nexus 7 is
>lovely. On my trusty aging desktop, I have no plans to change anything,
>other than apply the usual Tuesday patches from MS. Sometimes I wish that I
>still had a DOS box and Clipper. That was a comfortable environment!
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Hans-Christian Andersen <
>hans.andersen at phulse.com > wrote:
>
>> I think you are disregarding the fact that Metro has been a failure for
>> Microsoft, because it was too much of a change for users to adapt to.
>> Someone got fired for that, if you recall.
>>
>> Also, the UI/UX of iOS is in the complete control of a designer.
>>
>> The jury is still very much out - even more so than ever.
>>
>> - Hans
>>\
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