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Originally Posted by Faterson
 Resident MobileRead "design guru" is at it again. I hope Kris will ignore your "advice". Marvin needs more features – certainly not fewer. If you need fewer features, just turn to dumb Apple, Amazon, etc. e-reader software.
The mythical "average user" can go back to dumb Apple, Amazon, etc. e-reader software if they're afraid of being "confused". In reality, I'm convinced no such user exists. The fear of "confusing average users" is mostly used as a false cop-out by software developers unwilling to expand the functionality of their software. |
This thread is open because someone was confused about how something worked because of the design.
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Even so, some of my friends who, unlike myself, do believe that the looks of software are important as well, almost universally praise Marvin not just for its functionality, but also for its design. All Marvin versions – 1 to 3. By the way – can any e-reader software ever look more awful than iBooks's default library screen?
And I say that design doesn't really matter.
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Design isn't just about how something looks but how it functions, and making something simple is often more complex than vomiting out features and preferences. It's like with writing, nobody wants to read a wall of text so it's important to make your points clearly and concisely.