Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design' | The Verge

Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design' | The Verge Worse, other companies have followed in Apple’s path, equating design with appearance while forgetting the fundamental principles of good design. As a result, programmers rush to code without understanding the people who will use the products. Designers focus entirely on making it all look pretty.

Don Norman is the first and last word on good design. Long live the king!

Computing pioneer Alan Kay calls Apple's iPad user interface 'poor'

Computing pioneer Alan Kay calls Apple's iPad user interface 'poor'
Alan Curtis Kay is recognized as one of the few people behind the concepts that have defined much of personal computing over the past three decades."

Mr. Kay makes some important points here, although I do believe "authoring" photos (photography) and videos (videography) are not underrepresented on the iPad, but I do think a Smalltalk-like environment for creating iPad apps on the iPad is probably what he imagined.