This is true at least from a personal user's perspective. Although, I did get one last laugh out of the relationship. As I arrived at the account deletion page, I was served "The Guilt Trip Interface." Well done.
It has an arrangement of photos, titles reading, "Tom is going to miss you. Send Tom a message. Pat is going to miss you. Send Pat a message." I am somewhat familiar with this tactic as I was raised Catholic. It's ok to laugh, the TSA isn't watching—unless you are logged into Facebook.
When did the FB interface turn into a 1997 version of Yahoo?
More so now, Facebook is really hard to look at, and makes me dislike it more and more. It’s riddled with irrelevant text, apps and icons everywhere — surveys and other peoples franchised Candy Saga games (WTF?)being promoted.
I'm leaving out the things we've grown to accept, because you already know them and some people have accepted them. But where Facebook is now seems unacceptable. Like the Idiocracy version of the internet.
Facebook became popular in opposition to MySpace because there wasn't trash everywhere. It was clean and simple — people respected that. They clearly can't make that claim anymore. Facebook, you've seen what happened to your friends, and it's not pretty.
Months ago this video was released and I thought it was very well done. It came up in conversation yesterday and I was sent a link to the video, which reminded me how well done it was. This time, though, I was sent to Apple's website to view it. Accompanying this beautifully written and animated walkthrough of Apple's approach to design, is a damn off centered play icon. What the hell Apple? If anyone is going to teach us all to sweat the details you are in a great position to do so. I think you have done so for a long time, and in many cases.
The video is prefaced with the below frame (I think I glazed over the interface before playing and clicked away to watch the video.) When it was complete, it sent me back here. The triangle is pushed right of the center point of the circle. http://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/
Now, I realize the height of the left side of the triangle gives it more weight than the right, in which we would shift the triangle to the right to counter this in order to please the eye's desire for balance. In my quick diagram you'll see that I did account for this in the offset "T." I didn't want this to be true, but it was.
And finally, here is the video. Hopefully I didn't shadow the great production of this with my negative acknowledgment. Enjoy.
I dig it, the upcoming videos are listed where my attention is already. I can understand why they set it at the bottom previously, but it always seemed clunky. This will be easier to look through. Although, most of my youtube playlists windows get minimized to the dock. Except, of course, the Asian Club Pot-Luck Playlist, it went full-screen. (I am French-German, but due to my elevated appreciation for the pan-asian cultures I was invited to join with ceremonial open arms.)
I also like the UI of the menu icon that has been showing up on all of Google's interfaces. You can see it right under the logo in the top right. It expands to the image on the left and pushes content to the right.
