Visual skeuomorph buried. What about sound skeuomorph?
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Kirk MakElhern journalist "apple" with the experience of the sphere, asksWhether Apple will change after the appearance of new operatsionok more and outdated, in my opinion, the sound effects.
«Apple proudly said goodbye to skeuomorph in their future OSes OS X Mavericks and iOS 7, removing the interface elements similar to things in the real world. What elements are gone? In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is artificial leather in the Calendar, the green cloth in Game Center, as well as "Contacts" in the form of a notebook with a hard-bound. What is lost (and maybe get rid of what?) IOS: disappeared the same green cloth in the Game Center; old-fashioned microphone in the "Voice Recording" and "Find friends" - stitched leather stitches. Do not forget about the more lined paper in the "Notes." Both of these operating systems were contrary to jaundice-colored, from the abundance of skeuomorph became ill.
Well, Apple has broken with visual skeuomorph. Then why not get rid of the sound skeuomorph? By this I mean such audio effects on iOS, as the sound of a typewriter when typing on the virtual keyboard, clicking the shutter when photographing, whoosh when sending e mail. In OS X also has several "sound effects UI", and all of them can be turned off in the Sound preference pane (on iOS they will have to turn off separately).
I agree that the image of a notebook in an artificial leather-bound in the application interface looks old-fashioned, but how long do we have to wait until disappear and these sounds? There is no doubt that when sending e-mail, should be a signal alerting you about the delivery, but does it have to be a whiz as if something had flown through the air? And whether you want to capture iOS camera - or any other camera - appeared as a shutter sound when photographing analog cameras (devices)?
My opinion is that it is time to move beyond these strange, old-fashioned sounds and come up with a fresh and interesting samples of signals to alert the user. Personally, I turned off most of the sounds on your iPhone, in addition to ringtones, the signal on the receiving voice mail and text messages, and on a Mac, I have only the sound signals of the system. "
I wonder how many iOS and OS X users as annoying old audio effects?