{"id":816,"date":"2012-11-12T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-05-22T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:11:47","slug":"nevermind-skeuomorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/nevermind-skeuomorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevermind Skeuomorphism, Just Get the Volume Display Out of My Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the design implications<\/a> of the leadership shakeup at Apple, and how it might affect skeuomorphism<\/a> in their software. I’m not a big fan of overdone skeuomorphs, but I think Apple has some bigger fish to fry. Let’s take a look at the volume UI.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Whenever I watch a video, I frequently end up adjusting the volume. Which means the picture on my iPad is interrupted with this:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"iPad<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I think that says it all, but things are even worse on the iPhone, where the same-sized volume display is squeezed into a much smaller space:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"iPhone<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Almost every time I adjust the volume I immediately think, “Darn it now I can’t see what I’m doing!” I can’t even escape it on Mac OS:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Mac<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I have no idea why Apple found it necessary to make this so prominent. The television industry solved this problem a long time ago. The volume UI on my Panasonic might be a little ugly, but at least it’s tucked away down at the bottom of the screen – making it much less infuriating and ultimately better-designed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Here’s my suggestion – just show it in the status bar while you’re adjusting the volume. It can replace the time for a second or two.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the design implications of the leadership shakeup at Apple, and how it might affect skeuomorphism in their software. I’m not a big fan of overdone skeuomorphs, but I think Apple has some bigger fish to fry. Let’s take a look at the volume UI. Whenever I watch a video, I frequently end…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}