• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        15 hours ago

        Damn. Truly a visionary I must say. Nobody ever thought to think of a design in terms of how something works before

        No but seriously though, I don’t really get this quote. Isn’t that… obvious?

        • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          17
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          15 hours ago

          For Apple? No, it isn’t. Which is why we got the incredible air phone or whatever that shit was.

          They make quality stuff, but it’s always been about vanity. Drives me nuts how much some people are religious about their shit.

          • And009@lemmynsfw.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            12 hours ago

            Their shit like iPad and macbook, for creative work. There are no efficient alternatives.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            13 hours ago

            As far as I understand it nobody’s even buying the iPhone air. It’s obviously a cheap version of the product which should be great if it also had a cheaper price, but since it costs almost as much as the normal iPhone no one can see the point.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        15 hours ago

        ohhh, so Microsoft is bad at design, I was trying to pinpoint exactly what was so fucked up with their shit

        because seriously how the fuck does nothing Microsoft just work anymore

        even notepad was enshittified, I just learned there’s fucking copilot in notepad. I’m trying to hold out on Win10 at work, but they’re also making OneDrive trigger BSODs a few times a day now…

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          12 hours ago

          TBF Microsoft also don’t know how to make things look and feel right. For ages, their primary UI design tools were a toolbar crammed with buttons end to end, a vertical list crammed with items, and a table crammed with items row by row — culminating in Windows 8’s tiles. MS didn’t understand that people need spatial organization, spacing and margins, and only recently started separating toolbar buttons with white space in their apps.

          Meanwhile principles of grouping are any designer’s most basic tools. One could make good design with sticks and mud if they follow the principles.