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
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
@obrhoff Maybe I’m a HIG zealot, but as a user I appreciate familiar and predictable UI far more than beauty and novelty. I’ve never bounced off an app harder than Snapchat (accusing them of being novel, not beautiful). I view the native components of SwiftUI as an incredible gift to users (with notable exceptions for when Apple fucks everything up).
I’m glad for people who experiment with UI and for the people who appreciate it, but I always reach for the utilitarian app first.
obrhoff
Nick Sloan