Talks about how he feels to smart for the UI, but doesn't bother looking up the substantial body of research explaining why it's useful to any user (novice to expert).
It's 2011. I thought HCI had some respect. Stuff like this seriously makes my throat clench a little bit.
Half the complaints cover things that help your subconscious have a better idea of what's going on, from z-order to spatial changes in windows. The other half cover adding more useful context to a window. Without the dressing, the address book is a list pane and a few text boxes. If it and other windows (say, iTunes) were plain controls-in-windows, you'll have to spend extra time figuring out which one is which.
But, this story isn't about UIs. He's building himself as a curmudgeon character (have a look at the author page). It's a new sort of mid-level ludditery. BeOS? Haiku? Fucking really? There are at least a half-dozen changes you can make to a stock ubuntu config (mostly turning off unity) fit that mold today. But it's not about getting somewhere he prefers, it's about complaining.
Talks about how he feels to smart for the UI, but doesn't bother looking up the substantial body of research explaining why it's useful to any user (novice to expert).
It's 2011. I thought HCI had some respect. Stuff like this seriously makes my throat clench a little bit.
Half the complaints cover things that help your subconscious have a better idea of what's going on, from z-order to spatial changes in windows. The other half cover adding more useful context to a window. Without the dressing, the address book is a list pane and a few text boxes. If it and other windows (say, iTunes) were plain controls-in-windows, you'll have to spend extra time figuring out which one is which.
But, this story isn't about UIs. He's building himself as a curmudgeon character (have a look at the author page). It's a new sort of mid-level ludditery. BeOS? Haiku? Fucking really? There are at least a half-dozen changes you can make to a stock ubuntu config (mostly turning off unity) fit that mold today. But it's not about getting somewhere he prefers, it's about complaining.