{"id":2095,"date":"2015-12-28T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T17:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2015-12-28T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T17:13:30","slug":"interface-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/12\/interface-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Interface memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a smartphone your main screen probably looks like this these days:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SWZ0E0pD0bA\/VnxE34O_9SI\/AAAAAAAACOc\/sG2EOhfHzqA\/s800-Ic42\/ios-9-vs-android_0035.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is mine:<\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"Phone UI 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/haroldito\/23581483889\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Phone UI 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5631\/23581483889_1e03fbb772_z.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>   <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of perfect, seriously. Notifications happen in a discrete way. It\u2019s zen. It\u2019s elegant. Those iOS\/Android home screens with red dots of FOMO just will never look appealing to me and always feel childish. People discard shit all the time on their phones, I glide through mine. I use my coworkers\u2019 phones from time to time, it\u2019s horrifyingly cluttered and full of options you will never use or maybe once just <em>because you can<\/em>. This is one of the worst trend in tech: over-designing and over-engineering. Always happens when they want to sell more to you and are not (PSVita, WiiU, Galaxy VR whatever).<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t plan to update anything and actually haven\u2019t in years. Still using 8 and not 8.1. There was a crazy fuzz for those personal assistants but all I can see is that no one talks to their phones to ask something, besides setting up an alarm. It\u2019s anti-social and weird. Last apps or games? All the good ones come to the platform at some point and we all know that we\u2019re using a handful of them. I have already all the social \u201cloose your damn time\/eat your bandwidth\u201d media I use connected to my phone. So I don\u2019t feel like missing anything out. Especially when I look at people\u2019s screens in real life: FB, FB, FB and FB. It doesn\u2019t matter how recent your phone is. FB.<\/p>\n<p>It is a 5 year old interface designed by Microsoft but I regularly get some <em>\u201coh wow what is dis\u201d<\/em> when people look at\/use my phone. MS likes telemetry too much, they didn\u2019t factor in that it would take a bit of time for people to get use to the biggest change they ever made. So they backed up like little bitches.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny that in terms of memories I\u2019ll have this interface in mind for the 2010s, instead of the obnoxious grid of icons. Regardless after what, eight years of tech race and multiple devices and installing apps and taking pictures and sharing, I think we\u2019ve hit the good-enough paradigm in the mobile space.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you break your phone, you don\u2019t need to upgrade these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a smartphone your main screen probably looks like this these days: This is mine: It\u2019s kind of perfect, seriously. Notifications happen in a discrete way. It\u2019s zen. It\u2019s elegant. Those iOS\/Android home screens with red dots of FOMO just will never look appealing to me and always feel childish. People discard shit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}