“Good artists copy, great artists steal”. The artists at Apple couldn’t even break into the gallery.”
What does that even mean? what about the artists that invent, repurpose, innovate? hmmm 🤔
-Fisherking
The quote is talking about inventing, repurposing and innovating
again, sigh… all opinions. it’s ok to create a song without knowing the history of music. it’s ok to create from a fresh perspective, something not based on study of the past. altho not sure what any of it has to do with tahoe 🤷
-Fisherking
I agree with that point generally, but an UI isn’t a song.
UI isn’t an expressive art form, it’s a functional art form. You’re not gonna want a water bottle that creates from such a fresh perspective that it leaks, but many people do want a water bottle that looks good, and people who appreciate design will want a water bottle that feels fresh and innovative.
You can create a design that’s fresh and innovative while also fulfilling the basic function that the object is supposed to perform. That’s what people loved about the Jobs years of Apple’s design: They were great at doing both of those things.
Breaking the rules is great in art. It’s how art moves forward. But when you’re working in an area that requires function, even an innovative form must *support* that function. That’s what the quote “Design is how it works” means[/I]. That’s the whole point of the design: to enable people to accomplish a goal. The appearance has to come secondary to that. If the appearance is interfering with people’s ability to accomplish the goal, the design is bad.
And that’s why liquid glass is a failure. And it’s also why people are complaining that the UI designers at Apple don’t understand UI design: They’re breaking rules that make it possible to *use* the software rather than just look at it. We have decades of studies and testing and knowledge about how people see, what is usable, and what isn’t.
it’s ok to make changes that not everyone will like (really, speaking of history, this has been true of every OS in apple’s history; check these forums for verification).
-Fisherking
Sure, that’s true. But if you use your critical thinking skills, you can look beyond the surface of “people just hate change” and see that some critique makes sense and has valid reasoning, and other critique is just hating on change.
A lot of people want to believe that criticism of MacOS Tahoe is hating change, but most of the critique I’m seeing is entirely valid criticism based on the huge flaws in usability around the operating system’s design. Mainly, that it was designed in a way that looks good to Alan Dye but it interferes with the usability of the system for people who actually *use* it. And it does so at such an extreme, we’ve never seen this from Apple before.
When I first saw MacOS Tahoe, I was excited. It was cool to see Apple do something fresh and innovative. But then I saw how horrible the usability was. How the designers didn’t take using the software into consideration. How things like “we’re using transparency so the background doesn’t interfere with your content” makes no sense when you see the way the background bleeds through and makes it harder to read text. And that’s when I started criticizing them
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