Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
- Subject: Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:20:07 -0500
On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>> I guess the best we can do as developers is to vote with our feet by not adopting it in our apps.
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> The documentation for implementing vibrancy in our own views is incomplete, inconsistent and hard to follow, anyway, and the sample code from WWDC 2014 is confusing and no longer works right on the final release of Yosemite. I spent way too much time trying to make vibrancy work on a relatively complex custom view, and there are still a couple of aspects of it that I can't make work right.
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> But I disagree that vibrancy should be avoided. The few views that were semitransparent in Mavericks and earlier were worse, because I could make out the words showing through the view -- just enough to tempt me to read them. The application switcher (Command-Tab) comes to mind. Now, with vibrancy, there is no longer any temptation to try to read them.
Vibrancy gives the same effect we hated years ago, that effect of overblown HDR tonemapped images.
The new colors are already eyebleedingly vibrant against more white, resulting in a visually unpleasant UI on iOS and the Mac OS.
No idea why the powers that be thought it would be a good idea. It's different for the sake of being different, not different for the sake of being better.
Apple's UI direction needs better steering. Much better steering.
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