Please do bring it back. In my opinion, it looks better than the flat modern interfaces that everybody now uses. Starting with Windows 8 phone minimalism has made computer interfaces uglier, and harder to use.
It seems like UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers, and also have less concern for the comfort/usability of their product.
Windows looks like they fired all their designers and let developers make the interfaces. It seems like a waste that we go to high resolution screens and take all the detail out of interfaces.
What about magazines - where are the gradients, where are the textures? So far behind the technical possibilities... I think they figured out something over all these years.
And yeah, I hate the look of Windows XP through 7 with the fire of a thousand suns. Just look at the Windows 7 start button. Or the scarlet and light blue window buttons on Vista. There I wonder what they did to their designers to make them produce such garbage.
Fashion really has no place in computing. These are tools and we should treat them as such
"The reaction, as all reactionary trends, was to throw out everything that came before and fully embrace this new direction of minimalist ui, white space layouts and magazine typesetting. Some argue that it was a timely change to meet the demands of the increasing complexities of the interface. That we had grown out of the need to include real world cues in our digital analogies. Evolved the interface."
No, a bunch of kingmakers got on stage and we foolishly listened to them.
If course fashion has a place in computing. It has a place in physical tools as well.
You want a tool to be easy to use. A purely designed tool isn't easy to use. Fashion comes into play to design tools that are easy to user and nice to look at... In the case if UI, the look look is a part of the too as well.
You want people to buy your product. People tend to buy the latest fashion.
>> "...UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers..."
UI designers in general would be fashion designers if they could; they mostly went to the same school, had the same interests, are influenced by the same ideas etc.
The main difference is that one group needed real jobs and the other found a way to get by without them.
It seems like UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers, and also have less concern for the comfort/usability of their product.
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