How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name

Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name by spronkey on Saturday November 14, 2015 @07:43PM (#10567976)

Problem is the novice-expert transition in Apple devices is nonexistant. To become an expert you basically have to read a manual, or do things that a) have no affordance, b) have no clear feedforward, c) have an unknown effect and may be destructive, with no clear undo.

It's very poor design.

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Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name by iSnow on Sunday November 15, 2015 @04:47AM (#10569097)

>It's very poor design.

No, it's Windows/Linux-bias on your part. In the old time, every (and I mean every) medium-level Mac user knew that you can unlock a lot of additional functionality with the option-key. People today just seem to assume the Mac UI is built on the absolute same principles as the Windows UI, which is not true.

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Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name by spacehome on Saturday November 14, 2015 @08:24PM (#10568110)

> read a manual

Quelle horror!

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Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name by spronkey on Sunday November 15, 2015 @03:55AM (#10568983)

Heh, I should qualify that to become an expert some manual-reading is required. But the interface should at least help you with the transition.

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