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A comment on Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design. Parent comment

Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by coldtea on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:41PM (#20443236)
This. "Skeuomorphism UI is so bad, OMG" was just a journalistic fad/bandwagon when there was too many years of it and people who just get their opinions from op-eds. It will make its cycle back to fashion in the future.

In the first years, Aqua UI was praised as "lickable" and extremely pretty, and iOS skeuomorphic UIs wowed the world (and and where copied far and wide by competitors) for 5-6 years before any complaints.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by toyg on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:38PM (#20444384)
Aqua was insanely good. Everyone else rushed to replicate it. Windows Vista/7 were “Redmond does Aqua”. The Linux DEs had craploads of Aqua-like skins. Given a choice, I’d love to get Aqua back. The “material” school of design is brutalist, sterile, and unloving, whereas Aqua was human, sexy, and comforting.
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