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palata 21 hours ago

All bikes look the same, all cars look the same, all cameras look the same, all bridges, all dams, hell all smartphones look exactly the same! The whole goddamn point of UX is that you make something that is usable, and hence familiar to your users.

People who say "I was making GPUs before them, and they built their own GPUs that behave like GPUs so they copied me" don't understand how stuff is built. The hard part in engineering is not "imagining the high-level concept", it's actually making it work. Even if you can open electronics and study it to design and build your own, it requires a lot of expertise. And if you manage to do it, then you are an expert, period.

I'm sure many people find comfort in saying stuff like "You know what? I was a bit of a visionary because when I saw the first personal computer, I imagined that it would be cool if it could be orders of magnitudes faster and smaller such that it fits in a pocket". As if that was the hard part.

Typically, too many people spend a lot of time talking about UI and stuff like "unpacking" as if that was the most important part. But usually that's because they have no idea about how it works under the hood, so the only thing to discuss is whether the round edges are great or not.

xboxnolifes 21 hours ago | parent [-]

A good UI/UX is noticed and appreciated by many. A great UI/UX goes completely unnoticed by most.

fttt 21 hours ago | parent [-]

This is false.

Apple’s UI/UX is the reason why they are adored from a physical attraction perspective.

saylisteins 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple UI/UX sucks though, but all the other alternatives also suck.

hypercube33 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

BeOS didn't suck. It's UX stood out and was utilitarian.

ykonstant 8 hours ago | parent [-]

BeOS was an absolute gem.

davidpapermill 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Keynote has probably the best UX of any software I’ve ever used.

bogdan 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Powerusers be damned.

theK 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it can safely be argued that (only) good UX but also great marketing are the reason of that.

xboxnolifes 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They have good UI, it's noticed and appreciated by many.

ChrisClark 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, Apple's UI/UX is good, not great. Like far from great. So he's still correct