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Comment by recoiledsnake | Hacker News Reader

All this while comparing Metro to a lavatory sign and dissing Apple's design too.

From http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...

“Across the board Google and Android is taking design a lot more seriously,” Matias says, and points out that Roboto is used throughout the system. “There’s this thing that’s happening right now in user interface design that I find kind of shackling. The faux wood paneling trend, and the airport lavatory signage trend.” He laughs when he says this and pulls up a slide on his computer, a split screen of an Atari 2600 and… airport lavatory signage. It’s an obvious dig at both Apple and Microsoft.

Strikes me as a healthy blend of homage and criticism.

I think WP7 looks great, but agree that it's kind of austere.

I think a culture of innovators regularly taking the best of each other's ideas and making them their own, putting their own spin, their own personality on them is fantastic.

I'm so pleasantly surprised by this. I was totally expecting just another feature dump or change-for-change's-sake/shallow modernization UI refresh like every other one before this.

I'm really excited about Android having a clear user-centered vision. Not just because I'm an Android user, but because it's great for everyone that there's this level of competition in the industry.

Aye -- conflicting, for sure. ICS is definitely a little more fancy than Metro, but that might just be because ICS has a higher resolution (note the two-line previews in Gmail -- only possible because of a higher resolution).

The comparisons are very appropriate.

Apple cranked up the textures to 11 in iOS 5. So ugly and juvenile... I really find it difficult to believe that this is the same company that produced the gorgeous iPhone OS in 2007.

For example, I can deal with Apple's brushed metal, but who thought a faux leather GUI was a good idea??

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