Re: [NTLK] Dream OS [WAS: "The iMoleskine ?" AND "Re: newtontalk Digest V8 #219"]

Marcus-
That is it!

 I would LOVE to get an English translation of that article, not just fr the
OS GUI discussion, but for my own research.

Great insight!

On 5/22/08 1:46 AM, "Marcus Hammerschmitt"
<marcus.hammerschmitt@t-online.de> wrote:

>
> Am 22.05.2008 um 04:33 schrieb bcantley:
>
>> Of course, I am a design
>> theorist.. An addict to form and visual fodder...but I prefer a
>> "slick",
>> well [visually] designed OS interface. I think OSX and Newton do it
>> wonderfully.
>
> Though being no designer, I've discussed exactly this point
> in an article called "Lob der Härte" ("A Praise of Toughness")
>
> http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27475/1.html
>
> (German only link, sorry), where I argue that good decoration isn't
> just decoration but -
>
> - caters to a fundamental human need for esthetics
> - makes machinery accessible for people other than specialists
> - and, which is essential to me, opens a field where work and
> play can freely meet each other
>
> - the last one being of huge relevance to all kinds of discussions
> on work/life balance, life in a "post-industrial" society, utopian
> ideas about work and play more and more converging, etc. etc.
> Intentionally omitting the names of specific OSes I still had to
> take a lot of heat from the "my OS is better than your OS" crowd,
> but some of the readers actually understood what I was on about.
> In here I can openly admit that NewtonOS and OS X to me are
> the best examples yet for meaningful decoration in the
> aforementioned way. (Oh, and the title of said article is of course
> meant to be satire).
>
> Best,
>
> Marcus
>
>
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>
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