Mastodawn

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqvS94-ScFM

Spotify for iPad review

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Janusz Leidgens Jan 11

@obrhoff is the layout ugly or hard to use? I'm not sure we need breakthrough innovations. Maybe we learned enough to make usable apps with established patterns. I mean my browser looks very much the same for thirty years I think. The biggest innovation was to combine search and address bar years ago.

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obrhoff Jan 11

@Killerdackel Idk. I think we even regressed with Liquid Design and its obsession with emphasizing the content.

Like for example changing the tabs in Safari. It takes more taps to change tabs now (opening a popup, then selecting the tab screen). They added a hidden gesture (you can swipe the searchbar up) to directly access this screen.

Who will ever figure this out?

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bitterseeds

@obrhoff @Killerdackel you can revert it back to the old style. So is it a real problem?