Which I find incredibly confusing, at least on iOS. More than once I have misread it for its opposite.
(It doesn't help that it seems to be pretty hard to "get a hold of" on iPhone, but that is another matter. I am not very fond of Xylons idea or skeumorphic stuff in general. To me the whole idea of skeumorphic is a false dicomoty between the "real" world and the "computer" world. Increasingly, the "real" world is computer controlled or interacts with computer interfaces. To a child born now, a picture of a light bulb is almost as quaint and old as a picture of kerosene lamp. There is no "skeumorphic". There is only "familiarity" (from any kind of experience) and "clarity". We can draw on familiarity, but only so far. When familiarity, we need at least clarity. So whatever we do, we should make it very clear that there is a difference. Since we talk about the ON/OFF button, we could hint not only with the button itself, but we could strike out the text describing the option we are turning off, or making the text gray, or any number of things. I started this mini-rant because I got worked up when someone brought the iOS on/off widget as an example of good design. It's not horrible, but it's far from good. The iOS interface in general and as a whole, I think, is pretty good. But it's not because it's skeumorphic, but rather because it is coherently designed and has few ways to interact with it, easily learned. Two year olds master the GUI and it's not because the draw on their knowledge of spiral bound note books and other "skeumorphic" interface hints. Also the iOS interface absolutely *depends* on the input touch digitizer being very good. The iOS interface would be utterly *useless* on some of the low resolution, both in dpi and sample rate, many of the cheaper Android phones use. An aspect often overlooked in UI design, IMHO. On the desktop we thankfully have a very high speed, high resolution input device called "the mouse". On the other, do we account for people with cheap laptops and really bad (too sensitive? dirty? small?) touchpad input devices? Is our interface great with those input devices too? On May 24, 2013 at 5:36 PM "Alfredo Hernández" <[email protected]> wrote: > The one implemented in elementary OS, iOS, GNOME, OS X, Android... The > on/off switcher is becoming a new standard since touch devices started > becoming a new frontier for UX design. > "It has become a standard in modern operating systems" > > Ehem...this is me being stupid, but what is the standard switch in current > modern operating systems anyway? > > > On 24 May 2013 15:15, Alfredo Hernández <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The current one is clear enough and It has become a standard in modern > > operating systems. I don't see the need to change it. > > > > Regards. > > On 24 May 2013 13:09, "A. "Xylon" V." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I have an idea for a new GtkSwitch image in the eGtk theme. See the > >> attached file. > >> > >> This new GtkSwitch is skeuomorphic, and more intuitive from a user's POV > >> (I think anyway). The user can immediately tell what to do, as they can > >> relate to a light switch in real life, and therefore know the clicking on > >> it will turn the option on/off. This is not as obvious in the current > >> switch. > >> > >> However, I am not sure if this is possible to implement in Gtk3 css. > >> > >> -- > >> My blog, yeaaah! <http://skeptichacker.wordpress.com> > >> > >> -- > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > > > -- > My blog, yeaaah! <http://skeptichacker.wordpress.com> > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
