Comment by 2d8a875f-39a2-4
7 days ago
I mean, that just blog sums up the whole attitude issue here.
"It’s an exciting time to be a designer on iOS. My professional universe is trembling and rumbling with a deep sense of mystery."
This person is excited that their job designing iOS apps will be more interesting (and the prospect of plenty of work in the pipeline doesn't hurt either).
Fuck the end users who need to adapt to this needless change, suffer newly slow devices or invest in new ones, and put up with a hodge-podge of different UIs. Fuck the orgs who need to fund all this rework if they want their app on new devices. Fuck the waste of energy spent in the extra client-side cycles rendering all the needless new bling.
Indeed. This attitude is found throughout the tech industry. It stinks from a product manager's spreadsheets down to the infrastructure that runs it all. The design is just what is immediately obvious.
In this case I am lucky, as I find glassy UIs visually appealing.