Hooray!
Scott Forstall leaves Apple
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#42> Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year > Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company And thus ended the reign of skeuomorphism at Apple. Or, at least, the reign of hyper-realism and hyper-whimsy in UI design. Jobs or Forstall always seemed to favour it, but could you imagine Jony Ive signing off on a Podcasts app where half the screen is a reel-to-reel tape tha…
I can't wait to see how much cleaner future versions of iOS will be.
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#43I'm relieved about this. Pretty much all of the missteps at Apple that I've cared about were related to this guy. I'm confident that Ive will clear things up soon.
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#44Looks like Maps fiasco was too much to handle. Didn't they ask their SVP of hardware to leave when they had antennagate?
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#45Interesting that Jony will be overseeing UI. I expect a more minimalistic polish to upcoming interfaces. In other words, this is the beginning of the end for the skeuomorphism trend at Apple.
You're the second person that mentioned skeuomorphism. Could you please explain what it is and why it's a big todo? Most of my cursory google searches don't provide any particularly insightful definition of what it is. The blogs/rants usually just dive into why it's good or bad.
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#46Interesting that Jony will be overseeing UI. I expect a more minimalistic polish to upcoming interfaces. In other words, this is the beginning of the end for the skeuomorphism trend at Apple.
No. It's not UI, it's HI (Human Interface) now! It's best we all get used to it. It'll be repeated again and again from now on :) Edit: This is what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interface > Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for _Human Interface_ in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. It's still a non-word, but will be an (oft-used) word soon enoug…
The academic field behind UI design is HCI (Human Computer Interaction), so HI makes more sense :)
Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple
#47Most interesting part:
John Browett is leaving Apple
Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple
#48Anyone who A) likes Apple and B) has ever been in a Dixons store in the UK will be overjoyed with the other departure, Browett (head of retail and previous Dixons CEO) who is leaving immediately (compared to Forstall's year long "transition" departure). Dixons is everything that Apple should never be; terrible customer service, clueless minimum wage staff, horrible retail experience, and generally used only by people who desperately need something immediately or are too naive to find another store.
Recent news out of Apple regarding "cutbacks" at retail suggested he was nudging them in the same direction. Given that he got his first stock disbursement last week and was due $58 million over the next few years if he hung around, I'm guessing he was pushed. Great decision from Cook if that was the case.
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#49I wonder what this means for the possibility of future Apple devices having haptic touchscreens.
edit: What was the downvote for?!
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#50Given that 50% of the posts talk about skeuomorphism and honestly I didn't know what it was, here's the definition from Wikipedia: "A skeuomorph, or skeuomorphism is when a product imitates design elements functionally necessary in the original product design, but that becomes ornamental in the new product design".