Comments on: Google ruled by engineers, Apple ruled by designers https://blog.red7.com/google-engineers-apple-designers/ Communicating in a networked world Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sky https://blog.red7.com/google-engineers-apple-designers/#comment-80 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:27:44 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=984#comment-80 Here’s the difference as I see it … A car isn’t “a creative tool.” It only does one thing (shelter you while you move around at high speed). My opinion is that to use any device or technology that allows you to create new things (things like “content” or “playlist” or “custom communication”) you have to learn the language of “creation” not just the language of “use.” And this/these languages are far more complex than the passive languages of “use.”

As a separate thought, “browsers” have become our universal interface to web applications. Event though web applications all operate differently and use the interface in different ways, the browser interface (and HTML/DHTML) limit our interactions in certain ways so that we have a language of sorts that we use and we do not have to learn to use the browser all over again in order to use a new web application. Click. Click. Click. Drag. Drop. Type. ENTER. Click. (Apple did this all the way from 1984 with their standardization of the Macintosh user interface – and Microsoft to a similar degree, although they began evangelizing later than 1984.)

]]> By: Sherry Miller https://blog.red7.com/google-engineers-apple-designers/#comment-79 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:31:25 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=984#comment-79 Apple, Google, Windows … it doesn’t matter. Computers are still ridiculously hard to use with a terrible learning curve. My new (old) mantra: “You don’t have to learn to drive every time you buy a car.” We are not even close to a ‘universal computer interface.’ Did you know, Jim, that has always been my main interest? See http://tinyurl.com/dcugv8

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