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Re:Dynamicland by azeirah on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:27PM (#15965881)
Something I really dislike about the way he presents his work is that he is intentionally really really vague about what his contribution was to those various products, in his presentations he often shows a few slides "I worked on this, this and this", where the iPad and watch get shown..

Like, what did you do? Design the home screen? Design the vision of the machine itself? It's ambiguity taken to its highest extreme.

I really respect his work and publications though, no doubt that he made important contributions to the products he shows on his slides.

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Re:Dynamicland by bvfanboy3 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:10PM (#15966445)
See his details on his work at Apple here: http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple Spoiler: he can't talk about or show any details for some number of years. From his notes there and his other research, it seems would have been a proponent for skeuomorphic design at Apple, which lost out after 2011 in favor of flat buttons and icons.
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Re:Dynamicland by nickbauman on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:07AM (#15969549)
The skeuomorphic design "battle" is a myth. Look at the iphone settings icon today: there are no gears in your phone. Skeuomorphism lives on, we just believe what The Submarine tells us.
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