@BasicAppleGuy @siracusa I think this needs a bit of discussion about "master branding", vexillology, and so on
Like: What is the purpose? Bad flags are bad because they can't be seen from a distance, but most of all, can't be sketched by a child.
Master branding, (maybe just a trend?), it demonstrates that flexibility & variety comes WITH simplicity — the more complex your logo, the less you can do with it.
If you make colors optional, you now have the choice to add them back — different ones, for different contexts.
There's an entire scale of complexity — from alphabetic letters, to emoji, to skeumorphism
They all have their place?
Here another example with Tweetie (15 years!!!) and how it pushed everything forward.
The early years of mobile app design were full of energy and creativity (something Apple HIG zealots would probably hate today).
The energy in tech disappeared and we went from: „how could this be the best app we could imagine“ to „it’s good enough, ship it“.
#ipad #ios #indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic #skeumorphism
While researching how an iPad app should look, I came across this 13-year-old video of Spotify's iPad app. It reminds me how we are stuck in mobile app design.
We have achieved nothing in the last 13 years besides adding some meaningless gestures and maybe pushing a few pixels to the left or right (metaphorically).
#ipad #ios #indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic #skeumorphism
It is. I loved the #skeumorphism of iOS 1-6, though.
I've installed the old #Oxygen style on #bazzite via rpm-ostree:
rpm-ostree install oxygen-cursor-themes oxygen-sounds plasma-oxygen-qt5 plasma-oxygen-qt6 oxygen-fonts oxygen-icon-theme oxygen-mono-fonts oxygen-sans-fonts plasma-oxygen
It's way better to use then Breeze for #touchscreens - i also use it on #SteamOS on my #SteamDeck
I also switched for #konsole, #okular and #gwenview to #Fedora packages. This works much better for remote volumes than the #flatpak versions:
flatpak remove okular gwenview konsole; rpm-ostree install okular gwenview konsole
Okay, just stop it.
Mind-blowing!
#macos' orginal 10.5 time machine's ui is fantastic. i feel a big thing we lost with the wholesale rejection of the craft and artistry of ui skeuomorphism is the idea of *emotional context*
you start time machine when you're fucked, when you're at a very low moment. you're panicking. you're blaming yourself. that fucking document was your future, your whole world, and you fucked it. but you remember time machine.
and everything else falls away. you see a galaxy of stars, letting you feel how small you are in the universe, how small your problems are. you are no longer trapped, you have all the space. and you just travel back in time, grab the thing you want, and then hop back to now, as if it never happened. "there you go”, it says, "there's nothing to worry about. there never was anything to worry about. now you run along.”
the current time machine interface has identical layout from a wireframe perspective. but it has no emotional context. it's a grey software tool.
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