This whitewashing and hiding of everything essential is similar to Le Corbusier's aesthetics. He stripped buildings facades of any aesthetical elements, even pure geometrical ones, because he had some mental condition, that complex things bothered him.
The same in the computer UIs has been going on for last ~15 years. Astonishingly it's the company that boasts usability/ergonomics that does it. And sadly, every desktop out there (KDE, MATE, Gnome) does its best to imitate Mac OS.
I wonder if anyone in this part of "tech" industry does any sort of measurements of what they produce.
I've recently been given a Mac laptop at job (they refuse to support Linux), and the Finder UI is terrible exactly as the author describes.
The same in the computer UIs has been going on for last ~15 years. Astonishingly it's the company that boasts usability/ergonomics that does it. And sadly, every desktop out there (KDE, MATE, Gnome) does its best to imitate Mac OS.
I wonder if anyone in this part of "tech" industry does any sort of measurements of what they produce.
I've recently been given a Mac laptop at job (they refuse to support Linux), and the Finder UI is terrible exactly as the author describes.