It's time to bring back skeumorphism

Maximizing everything except accessibility.

I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.

This takes me back.

Unless someone is incapable of reading, these labels are not color coded and listed under unique button structures to help them stand out. What part of this is inaccessible?

Eve players: noooo... It's not just a spreadsheet

Veteran WoW players: hmm... I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display

5 downvotes in 7 minutes for a question? Smells like alt account brigading.

Anyway, especially with more modern accessibility tools and frameworks, why can't a design like in the OP be accessible?

This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars

Yes, people who can't read because they are blind would have accessibility issues...

It is pretty much guaranteed that the images did not have alt text for screen readers and were not set up to be tabbed through for someone who needs to use a keyboard and not a mouse because of dexterity issues. Then there is the problem that there isn't a lot of contrast, the text is angled, it isn't clear what is clickable and what isn't, and a bunch of other stuff that are issues for people well beyond colorblindness.

While it could technically be created in a way for an alternate accessible way to interact they never really were. It takes a ton of work to make anything other than plain text accessible, and even that takes more work than just typing. It takes exponentially more work with something like this.

Nobody bothered to take that time unless they were sued. I am currently getting a state agency through a complete website redesign because we could not feasible make the old one accessible, and that is only happening because we were sued as a state agency is obligated to make their site accessible. The first things to go was shit like this.

Lots of wheelchairs around here that assume every one here knows about them.

Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

It was a loaded question and deserved downvoting.

And they still wiped.

This reminded me of the absolutely god-damn-awful DVD menu of the first Harry Potter film

You say that, but that’s what Apple has been doing with Liquid Glass, and tons of people hate it, myself included

The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.

The standards we used to put up with...

Could you please elaborate on what you meant with this comment?

That is probably what the image in the post is about, really.

It's supposed to make the program more accessible for those who are not used to the concept of computer programs at all.

To be fair, they only had a thirty-two point three three uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival.

Liquid Glass is WindowsVistaMorphism done wrong not Skeuomorphism.
Skeuomorphism requires the UI to at least approximate real life objects for each use case.

And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those

“RIGHT SIDE, MANY WHELPS!! HANDLE IT!!!”

Liquid glass is not skeuomorphism, it's just Windows Aero 20 years later. Simulating the realistic look of single material and using it for all the interface is quite the opposite of skeuomorphism. As such things don't exist in real life. There were never music stereo players made entirely of glass. So they are not imitating anything that has ever existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGD92DDsvc

It will come back when all the big players are only offering cloud services, to ensure normies don’t demand that computing be allowed in the hands of everyone again. “It’s so easy to use! Why couldn’t those old PC things get it right? God those were terrible, I’m so glad we subscribe to ChatGPT for $80 a month, and those scary Muslim leftists get ion-cannoned when they have conversations about how they want life to be better instantly now.”

I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.

I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.

I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense... I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.

On a side note. There was Magic School Bus game like apps, which were brought to the public by none other than Microslop. What a time was that..

Yeah good riddance on that one

WARNING: SEMEN LOW

As an android user liquid glass is the only apple thing i'm envious of. Android looks boring af, a little playfulness doesn't hurt

How much liquid glass do you encounter in your daily life? Do you live in a kiln?

I can't tell you how many fleet fights I literally disabled graphics and only had the overview and chat. Especially multiboxing, I might have one with graphics. Not necessary for most.

what do you call someone with no arms or legs in a pool? . Bob

This is not the era of the internet I remember fondly. I liked the static internet of the 90’s then when it started getting more minimal in 2010’s when flash was on its way out.

Banzai Buddy!

My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.

You replied to the wrong comment, there's no question mark in mine.

I prefer minimalist ui. This just looks messy.

The standards we used to put up with…

Back when games were measured by how enjoyable they were rather than a little number in the corner.

It’s telling that they had to brightly highlight the tab that’s actually active, because users definitely got lost otherwise.

At least I have chicken

Back when software had a soul...

skeuomorphism was all the rage for a while and I loved it

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