Is Realistic UI Design Realistic? | Aaron Weyenberg
We’ve all heard the sound — that tinny shutter clicking sound point-and-shoot cameras make when you take a photo. There’s no complex mechanical mirror assembly swinging upward when the shutter opens. No matter, though. The cigarette box sized camera burps out a faux ka-click anyway. The mechanism producing this noise was quite necessary for its predecessor, the SLR/DSLR camera, but now functionally irrelevant in the newer point-and-shoots. This design cue (audible in this case) inherited from an ancestor is…
An excellent article on how far should we really be taking realistic UI in UX design.
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