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Mar 12 2010 ∞

Marco.org: Overdoing the interface metaphor

We’re often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad.

But it’s not absolute, and it’s not always the best idea. My favorite counterexample is the typical calculator…

I’ve always maintained that software should be informed by reality, but not limited by it.

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  1. chrisdannen reblogged this from marco
  2. cflee reblogged this from marco and added:
    Marco.org: Overdoing
  3. springmilk reblogged this from marco and added:
    Absolutely brilliant discussion
  4. srudersdorf reblogged this from marco
  5. gopy reblogged this from marco and added:
    informed by reality,
  6. caseyagollan reblogged this from marco and added:
    interface metaphor
  7. jamesgill reblogged this from marco
  8. ungeziefer reblogged this from marco and added:
    recently finished reading You Are Not...Gadget by Jaron Lanier. It is
  9. jmking reblogged this from marco and added:
    an excellent post...instituting metaphors...software. While...
  10. therealadam reblogged this from marco and added:
    Personal pet peeve: apps...real world. Marco’s thoughts
  11. scj reblogged this from marco
  12. azizikhalid reblogged this from marco
  13. drauh reblogged this from marco and added:
    exactly why, when I need...run bc, or Python...complicated...
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