So I happened to read some rants about Mac OS X
Lion™’s user interface—a rant written as it turns
out by a current Apple employee. These
rants were not particularly charitable but I'm afraid I still found them
entertaining, laced as they were with 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words
(one verb in particular appeared numerous times) and
complaints about stupid *pointless* skeumorphism.
Naturally I had to go look up the word. A few hours later, I was working on an HTML table;
when you click on a certain element, the table would expand, and I wanted
to show the number of rows you'd be adding by clicking there. It looked
kind of like this:
| title | KLOC | etc
|
|---|
| [⊕5] summary info here | 474 | ... |
Got the picture? I asked a few colleagues if they thought the number
made the table too busy, etc., and one of them said, yes it's busy but I still
love it... and also said the design was skeuomorphic.
My reply: "I've seen this word before but for some reason your email didn't
have any profanity in it."
He shot back: "It looks f*** nice, too"
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