@prozacchiwawa @Seg

This is a drum I've been beating like the village idiot for years now.

I see a lot of factors:

• the insane growth and popularity of iOS circa 2009-2015 meant that the iOS team dominated over the Mac team, and MacOS started imitating iOS as a kind of compensation (or for any other numerous, but spurious reasons)
  • iOS' design was great for a touch device. Not perfect, probably not as good as MacOS X for keyboard/mouse, but definitely one of the most intuitive touch interfaces. It makes for a crappy keyboard/mouse interface, particularly with the stupidly thin, buttonless, and disappearing scrollbars (I don't think scrollbars should disappear, even on mobile. They're an important marker for the size and position of the viewport)
• The engineers, developers, and designers that laid the foundational principles for UI design in the 80s-2000s have almost all retired, or were simply ignored
• Chesterton's Fence. If you haven't heard of it, the pertinent quote, prominently displayed in a blockquote on that page, is only 235 words long. Please read it. It's a very important principle

So yeah, younger designers got in, said, "Oh my, my, doesn't that all look so fusty! I'm gonna make it ALL better!"

And there we have "Liquid Ass," and the disease spreads to Windows and Linux desktops.

#ChestertonsFence #UIDesign #Devolution #LiquidAss

@joel

G.K. Chesterton, Catholic apologist and novelist.

Normally, I'm quite allergic to conservative/traditionalist things, but I've been interested in him lately because of "Chesterton's Fence."

#ChestertonsFence

@davidgerard

It's the hubris that gets me.

"Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

Chesterton's coreutils.

#Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence