{"id":4001,"date":"2011-11-17T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:41:21","slug":"apples-aesthetic-dichotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Aesthetic Dichotomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madebymany.com\/blog\/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy\">James Higgs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/madebymany.com\/blog\/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy\"><p>When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone&mdash;perhaps his greatest product presentation&mdash;he joked that the iPhone was an iPod with a rotary dialing system on the front. It was deliberately absurd, and the audience duely delivered the anticipated laugh. (I&rsquo;m reliably informed that an early prototype of the phone actually <em>did<\/em> feature such an interface.)<\/p>\n<p>But no one laughs when Apple delivers a calendar application for the iPad that tries its hardest to look like a real-word desktop calendar pad, complete with fake leather and &ldquo;torn&rdquo; pages. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/actionatadistance.net\/post\/12933888283\/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy\">Richard Gaywood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/actionatadistance.net\/post\/12933888283\/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy\"><p>My biggest problem with skeuomorphic design is that it creates false UI interaction clues. After reading a novel in iBooks, I once switched to Calendar, and instinctively started dragging the stack of pages on the edges of the screen to flip through the display. This doesn&rsquo;t work, of course. Neither does dragging at those cutsey little torn edges in the Calendar, in a futile attempt to clean them up&mdash;which is precisely what I&rsquo;d do to the real-world object.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Higgs: When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone&mdash;perhaps his greatest product presentation&mdash;he joked that the iPhone was an iPod with a rotary dialing system on the front. It was deliberately absurd, and the audience duely delivered the anticipated laugh. (I&rsquo;m reliably informed that an early prototype of the phone actually did feature such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}