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The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Hazdaz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a great YouTube channel of this younger guy who teaches design and he makes very good videos that dissect a lot of the BS design trends. One of them is taking the old school "less is more" type of thinking into a stupid extreme. He explains that far too many designers are missing the deeper meaning in that design ethos which ends up making the user experience MORR complicated all so they could save adding an extra button to make navigating the device's interface infinitely easier.

[–] Dark_Blade 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds really interesting! I hope future product/UX designers see those kinds of videos and we can see a return of more ‘creative’ designs.

[–] Hazdaz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Things run in cycles, so I'd like to think we'll get some sanity back in design, but designers work for companies, and companies like to make money, and no one makes more money than Apple. And Apple is downright obsessed with the bad version of "less is more". And of course the worst thing of all is that it is far easier to copy than to innovate, so these shit designs are here for a while.

[–] Dark_Blade 2 points 1 year ago

Thankfully, Apple seems to be going back on the ‘less is more’ thing that Jony Ive started; at least when it comes to stuff like their laptops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the channel if you don’t mind sharing?

[–] Hazdaz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/p5InhRf2JrU

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!