In a post on a completely different topic, Keith said
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Keith Russell <
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> Mostly these days, I am an experiment in Steve Job¹s reality of hiding
> buttons and removing functionality.
>
yeah!
I am extremely annoyed by the cult of design that now pervades the world,
namely that design is making things look pretty. I thought we had gotten
over that. Well, Jobs and Ive has brought it back.
Our gesture-based tools -- both Apple and Google's Android -- are
more attractive than before, less usable. Nice, attractive fonts, too tiny
and too low contrast to be legible. No more discoverability (we lost menus
and important signifiers), nor more feedback, no more recoverability (every
so often you can shake your device and it will undo, but not only is this
bizarre, there is no way of knowing where this is true.
More attractive, less usable. Yet corporations all over are gloating over
the power of design.
Grr. I could go on at length -- and one of these days I will. And in a
more public forum than this one.
Do I want attractive things? Of course. But I also want understandable
things, functional things.
Apple and its followers (Yes, Google, I'm talking about you) have
given design the wrong reputation.
Don
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
[log in to unmask] designlab.ucsd.edu/ www.jnd.org <http://www.jnd.org/>
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