This is one of my favorite user interface design articles that I recommend every chance I get, and it should be required reading in every design class.
Apple's long romance with skeuomorphism peaked with Bob Bishop's APPLE-VISION, and went downhill from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWE-aO-cyU
At the other end of the spectrum of video players with extremely terrible user interfaces, there's VLC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573499
>[... detailed step by step instructions to demonstrate a terrible usability failure that I wrote up in a bug report that was brushed off and ignored ...]
>This single facet of VLC's terrible UI deserves to be front and center in the User Interface Hall of Shame [2] -- it's even worse than Apple's infamous schizophrenically skeuomorphic QuickTime 4.0 player [3], from 1999! The latest version of VLC in 2017 is still much worse than the shameful QuickTime player was 18 years ago!
At least QuickTime 4.0 serves as a useful ruler by which we can measure the terribleness of other video players.
Apple's long romance with skeuomorphism peaked with Bob Bishop's APPLE-VISION, and went downhill from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWE-aO-cyU
At the other end of the spectrum of video players with extremely terrible user interfaces, there's VLC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573499
>[... detailed step by step instructions to demonstrate a terrible usability failure that I wrote up in a bug report that was brushed off and ignored ...]
>This single facet of VLC's terrible UI deserves to be front and center in the User Interface Hall of Shame [2] -- it's even worse than Apple's infamous schizophrenically skeuomorphic QuickTime 4.0 player [3], from 1999! The latest version of VLC in 2017 is still much worse than the shameful QuickTime player was 18 years ago!
At least QuickTime 4.0 serves as a useful ruler by which we can measure the terribleness of other video players.