{"id":128774,"date":"2015-11-12T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-seductive-allure-of-design-over-function.html"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:11:02","slug":"the-seductive-allure-of-design-over-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-seductive-allure-of-design-over-function.html","title":{"rendered":"The Seductive Allure of Design over Function"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm not an Apple user, so I have no direct skin in this game — aside from recent moves by Google (with "Material Design") that have generally (a) made things look prettier, but (b) introduced some of the design issues discussed to the Androidverse.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +David Newman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think every user of Apple devices has known for a while that Apple software is becoming less and less usable. This article makes clear just how bad the problem is. I wonder if some start-up could get some traction in the market by emphasizing usability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHow Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name<\/a><\/span>
\nFor years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I'm not an Apple user, so I have no direct skin in this game — aside from recent moves by Google (with "Material Design") that have generally (a) made things look prettier, but (b) introduced some of the design issues discussed to the Androidverse. Originally shared by +David Newman: I think every user of Apple … Continue reading “The Seductive Allure of Design over Function”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30322,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/apple-shamelessly-copies-a-user-interface.html","url_meta":{"origin":128774,"position":0},"title":"Apple shamelessly copies a User Interface!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-12 1:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lucky for them no law suits are in the offing. 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