A photo isn’t an interactive interface so there’s entirely different perception tasks involved in parsing it. We like a lot of things in photos that are horrible for UI design — and vice versa.

But this also gets into another gray area where looking at a design for a UI != using said design to perform important tasks. Hence why prototyping and user tests often run counter to “pretty” interfaces.

Right but you got any science to back up what you say?

I can simply say you’re wrong and I disagree and you got nothing to move your argument forward.