It seems like UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers, and also have less concern for the comfort/usability of their product.
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And yeah, I hate the look of Windows XP through 7 with the fire of a thousand suns. Just look at the Windows 7 start button. Or the scarlet and light blue window buttons on Vista. There I wonder what they did to their designers to make them produce such garbage.
"The reaction, as all reactionary trends, was to throw out everything that came before and fully embrace this new direction of minimalist ui, white space layouts and magazine typesetting. Some argue that it was a timely change to meet the demands of the increasing complexities of the interface. That we had grown out of the need to include real world cues in our digital analogies. Evolved the interface."
No, a bunch of kingmakers got on stage and we foolishly listened to them.
Given the anti-creative monotony that "fashion" produces in tech, I'd take the DIY geocities aesthetic and skeumorphism any day of the week
This is a remarkably limited perspective on a set of devices that people spend almost every waking hour using.
This cracked me up... You do realize that even things like programming language selection are 90% fashion-driven, right?
For some, sure.
UI designers in general would be fashion designers if they could; they mostly went to the same school, had the same interests, are influenced by the same ideas etc.
The main difference is that one group needed real jobs and the other found a way to get by without them.