I guess that is exactly the market Stone Design appeals to.
The aesthetically challenged. The icons are a minor issue, compared with the User Interface which I find inconsistent, jarring, oddball and totally unreliable.
Yes, you can get to learn anything, but that beggars the question as to why you need to negotiate your way through a design shambles JUST to do your work.
Simple, clear and obvious is always best as is using established conventions so you don't have to learn new ones and/or all the exceptions plus remember <i>"This doesn't work like anywhere else"</i>.
Apple may have strayed from its old simplicity but there is enough left to still make it extremely powerful because even if you don't know how to do something, due to the concepts and similarities you can make a good educated guess as to what might work.
Stone is living in part of the Mac world that doesn't really speak Mac.
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Horrible looking program icons - rubaiyat
I guess that is exactly the market Stone Design appeals to.The aesthetically challenged. The icons are a minor issue, compared with the User Interface which I find inconsistent, jarring, oddball and totally unreliable.
Yes, you can get to learn anything, but that beggars the question as to why you need to negotiate your way through a design shambles JUST to do your work.
Simple, clear and obvious is always best as is using established conventions so you don't have to learn new ones and/or all the exceptions plus remember <i>"This doesn't work like anywhere else"</i>.
Apple may have strayed from its old simplicity but there is enough left to still make it extremely powerful because even if you don't know how to do something, due to the concepts and similarities you can make a good educated guess as to what might work.
Stone is living in part of the Mac world that doesn't really speak Mac.
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