>See - people even rejected great design like buttons when they first came out! It just takes time to get used to new designs!
Still don't like your hamburger menu. Sorry not sorry.
When the push button was new, people were freaked
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#62It would be interesting to see articles like this for various common elements of UI widget toolkits, which I guess kind of mix metaphors in that some of them (buttons, sliders) evoke electromechanical devices while others (checkboxes, text boxes) evoke paper forms.
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#63> Today, you’d probably have to schedule an electrician to fix what some children back then knew how to make: electric bells, buttons, and buzzers. Where I live you are technically not allowed to install equipment on 120 or 240 if you are not a certified electrician. Insurance won't cover water damage if installation hasn't been done by a professional plumber. People still do it, but this is not going in the right di…
That's pretty ridiculous, so you can't change a socket without calling a guy?
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#64Fluffy but pretty interesting post. Thanks!
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#65It would be interesting to see articles like this for various common elements of UI widget toolkits, which I guess kind of mix metaphors in that some of them (buttons, sliders) evoke electromechanical devices while others (checkboxes, text boxes) evoke paper forms.
I'm going to write one about the idiocy of the "flat" design fad. I wonder how people of 1900 would have felt about having to experimentally poke at things that looked like plain labels or placards, or decorative swatches of paint, to operate a machine.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Force Touch was discontinued in 2019 and replaced with a simple “long press” feature called Haptic Touch. iPhone 11 and later and Apple Watch 6 and onwards don’t have the pressure sensitive layer anymore.
MacBook touchpads still have it though.
And yet the (defectively) giant trackpads don't support the Apple Pencil, which would have been great.
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#67> Today, you’d probably have to schedule an electrician to fix what some children back then knew how to make: electric bells, buttons, and buzzers. "Some" is doing a ton of work in this sentence describing 19th century children.
Well, I'm of 20th C. origin—not 19th—and the first electrical things I played with as a young kid were electric bells, buzzers, batteries, flashlight globes and reels of bell wire—lots and lots of it. (Experimenting with such items wasn't an unfashionable activity when I was a kid.) Bell wire, which usually came in the form of two single-stranded copper wires twisted loosely together and insulated in red and white PV…
Living in Europe, I’m one of the rare millionaires so I have a house, 150m2 (on the Côte d’Azur, I admit it’s expensive), but even for me, thinking of “a bell for mother to signal us to come to dinner” is the thing that belong to the times when energy was unlimited, and therefore house sizes and taxes on inhabitable square meters. It’s not that we do have bells here, but we don’t have the square meters anymore.
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#68From Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b: Socrates: I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters. Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god…
How dare Amun-Ra come into my house and attack me like that! Sure, I'm using Wikipedia to debate stuff on the Internet, but my cell phone makes me a post human augmented, cybernetic being, not a half-educated layman with a fondness for sophistry. Right?
Re: When the push button was new, people were freaked
#69It would be interesting to see articles like this for various common elements of UI widget toolkits, which I guess kind of mix metaphors in that some of them (buttons, sliders) evoke electromechanical devices while others (checkboxes, text boxes) evoke paper forms.
I'm going to write one about the idiocy of the "flat" design fad. I wonder how people of 1900 would have felt about having to experimentally poke at things that looked like plain labels or placards, or decorative swatches of paint, to operate a machine.
"Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7405023-it-s-the-wild-colou...
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