"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:jbfnbk$rkc$4...@digitalmars.com... > On 2011-12-02 19:15, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> The hell with mobile, eh? Making things look and act the same on >> everything >> is *terrible* UI design. Making things look and act *appropriate* for the >> given platform has alwas been and will always be the proper thing to do >> regardless of what the majority of designers decide is the trend du jour >> (ok, so that's redundant, so sue me ;) ). >> >> > > I agree. I hate that applications invent their own GUI widgets when there > already exist perfectly usable widgets. These new widgets never work or > look as good as the native ones. >
Yea. And even if they do actually mange to look nice (ex: Adobe's CS5 installers, and CS3/4, IIRC...at least on Windows anyway) they just don't *fit*. They stand out too much. Plus they carry an arrogant implication of "Fuck your settings. We think ours are better, so we're taking away your control over your computer."