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Lance Thackeray
Artist | Professional | Design & Interfaces
United Kingdom
Current Residence: East Yorkshire, England
Favourite style of art: GUI design and skinning.
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate (finally......)
MP3 player of choice: Xion. Seriously guys, Xion is revolutionary. Use it and help it grow.
Wallpaper of choice: Varies. Nothing too complex
Skin of choice: Everybody always cracks the same joke with this answer. So I'm going to be different.
Favourite cartoon character: Patrick from Spongebob, Randy Marsh from Southpark
Personal Quote: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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...the best way to view a GUI is on an angle, mocked up on an iPhone screen, with epically shallow depth of field?

I don't care whether or not it's an app designed FOR the iPhone. If you take a photo of an iPhone on an angle with low DoF, absolutely ANYTHING will look good on it, even a pure white screen. I shit you not. The details and reflections in the phone's body make up at least 90% of the visual satisfaction, completely taking focus away from the actual GUI. "But it shows how it would look in the real world." No mate it doesn't. My human eyes don't have the DoF of an expensive Canon macro lens, nor do I use my phone holding it at a 45 degree angle, and sat in the middle of a professionally lit photography studio. When I buy food, I don't need to see a picture of somebody eating it.

On the flip side to making otherwise hideous designs look like the most amazing thing ever, a photo mock up also makes truly beautiful design look like crap. If you've spent days on end hammering away at pixel-level details, why would you showcase it all as a massive blur? You're doing yourself no favours. You make great work so SHOW that you make great work. An Xbox game case shows screenshots not a photograph of screenshots on a TV.

I've just viewed a popular image on a certain popular website. It has hundreds of likes and comments praising it for being so beautiful. It was indeed a phone shot. On the screen was a plain white background, a single solid green line, and a small paragraph of grey text. Three elements. That's it. MS Paint would laugh out loud at such a thing. But slap that thing on a phone and you gain additional fake screen gradients and reflections and a blur that suggests that there COULD potentially be amazing amounts of detail beneath it.

Why is this happening? It's shaping up to be my most disliked design trend of all time. I want to view Graphic User Interfaces not photographs.

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  • Mood: Rant

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:iconrowdyruffboy:
I'm so happy you're starting out graffui! Hope to join it as soon as possible !!
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:iconchewysolo:
Welcome back!
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:iconpureav:
*Pureav Mar 1, 2013  Professional Interface Designer
Lol thanks! Thought it'd never happen...
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~m1r1 Aug 23, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Happy birthday, Lance! :)
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*Ikaax Aug 23, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Happy bday fella ^^ :cake:
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:iconpitkon:
Happy birthday, my friend! :cake: :party:
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=YN1F Aug 20, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
3 more days Lance.....you'll be OLDER! :D
Happy (i know, early) Birthday bro!
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:iconpureav:
*Pureav Aug 22, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
Aw fanks dude! :D
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=YN1F Aug 23, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Jah mon!:D
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:iconrowdyruffboy:
Hey Lance! When graffuio /guistation project start again?! I miss you all! :((
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