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Comment If it's not necessary, then don't do it! (Score 1) 550

If it's not necessary, then don't do it! Any time a bodily tissue or organ that undergoes any type of surgery, it will never be the same again. 20 years ago a friend in FL underwent Lasik surgery. She acquired an infection in one eye and treated her with antibiotics without success. When the doctors realized she had a fungal infection inside the eye, it was too late to save her vision. In April 2013, I experienced 4 retinal detachments at the age of 45 in the left eye requiring 3 surgeries: laser surgery; vitrectomy and laser surgery; vitrectomy and laser surgery with scleral buckle. In October 2013 I went against medical advice and had the scleral buckle removed because I couldn't tolerate the device in my eye. In April 2014, I had cataract surgery because the previous surgeries were so traumatic to the eye, causing a cataract. Over $60,000 later I now have about 90% vision in the left eye. Cause of the retinal detachment: normal aging with bad luck. Don't have elective surgery on your body if it's not medically necessary, you might regret it later.

Comment Re:Flat UI Design (Score 2) 165

Meh.

It's visually appalling crap.

Deference and Clarity lose all the time over the Visual Context that is gained by clearly defined controls with moderate depth, shadow and lighting.

And their color scheme of garish and overly luminous colors that clash with each other? Just how is this a good thing? It isn't.

Comment Re:Flat UI Design (Score 1) 165

I have them. Email me at zav - at - mac - dot - com

I LOVE 10.6.8. I use it on all my home macs.

In the office, I have to use 10.8.5. It's the least visually sucky of them post Snow Leopard.

Install an SSD and Max out your RAM and stick with 10.6.8 or leave the platform like I will be doing.

Sucks that Ive's touch is destroying the Mac and iOS interface. Really sucks, but these new versions are too ugly to use.

Comment Re:Flat UI Design (Score 2) 165

I KNOW!

You CAN'T TELL if a UI element is a clickable element element if #1, it looks just the same as everything else, #2, isn't displayed on the screen until you mouseover it!

Xcode actually REMOVED the damn disclosure arrows from hierarchical controls so that you had NO IDEA that you could click on them until you tried it.

OMF! Infuriating. Someone thought that was a good idea? Why do they still have jobs?!

What's even worse is that in some areas, the clickable items are INVISIBLE until you mouse over them. Holy crap!!

Buttons need to look like fucking BUTTONS so you can eyeball the screen and know what everything on the screen does without needing to interact with each element!

How does the "professional" design team at Apple not know this???

Flat UI design REMOVES valuable context from the user that HELPS the user figure out how the interface behaves without having to manually hunt and peck through the interface!

Ive needs to never touch a human user interface EVER.

The iOS and Mac interfaces have only gotten worse since Ive's started touching them. It's seriously tragic.

Comment Re:Who is this aimed at? (Score 4, Informative) 165

Yes. Yes it does. Bouncing rubber banding scroll views in Safari and the Finder if you use the Magic Mouse. Who the HELL needs this? Kill it. Kill it with fire. Windows and alerts that pop open in your face just like from iOS. So many iOS conventions that simply suck on a desktop. Full screen use on my 30 inch display is counterproductive. Full screen on a multi monitor system with a 30 inch display is a joke.

Comment Ugh. (Score 0) 165

Terrible font - Helvetica Neue roman needs to die in a fire when compared to Helvetica medium or Lucida Grande.
Font is too thin, spacing is too wide. Looks weak, girly, empty, frail. Ick.
Terrible color scheme - too luminous, too garish, colors conflict with each other and are hard on the eyes. Unpleasant to view.
Flat UI elements simply suck, look insubstantial and weak.
Translucency is better, but still sucks. Why do we need this?

Can't look at it. Don't want to look at a UI that hurts my eyes.

If the future of the Mac looks like this, I'm leaving the platform. Jony Ive should never be allowed to touch an interface - ever.

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