Comment by pseudalopex
6 days ago
> Time and time again I see people bemoan Apple's UI direction and then sure enough within a year or two it becomes ubiquitous as web designers adopt the patterns for their own work.
This shows most designers follow trends. It does not show Apple's ideas were good.
At a minimum it shows they weren’t bad enough that others felt they had to avoid it.
But to be honest, people do market research, they know what the public like. And if I’m totally being honest, if I made a new design for the general public and the odd internet forum didn’t get enraged about it I’d be worried I either had made too un-impactful a change or worse, I’d made something critics like more than the general public.