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Capacitive v resistive...

DS had a stylus for a reason.

Nobody reads footnotes...

Thanks.

Obviously, I'd prefer they mean the same thing ;)

I think that visual designers are more about building design languages; graphic designers are worker bees.

I might be wrong though - I already was once!

That said, I didn't change the article because the distinction is not as well-known, and I liked the headline ;)

Heh - hoisted on my own petard...

Fair. I was more referring to the quote in it's entirety:

“The very fact that we’re talking about who’s going to design the icons, who’s going to design the applications and the operating system is a little bit of a concern. Because that’s not innovative,” she explains. ”What I’m interested in is not so much what they’re going to do about skeuomorphism, and those awful leather book pieces and daily planners, but a couple things that Apple didn’t hit the ground running. Like for today, Wii and Microsoft own gestural.”

“Apple kinda missed television and missed social,” she continues. “I’d be concerned that they’d miss natural user interfaces because they’re busy getting rid of skeuomorphism.”

EDIT: This is the quote from Wired that I called asinine. I don't agree with it. Wired link: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/what-jony-ive-needs-to-d...

Yeah, that's part of it. More specifically, their success seems wholly random to your garden variety analyst.

#1 was a huge deal for me. I only use a cloud IDE for web development, and the ability to edit something no matter where I am or what computer I'm using in an environment I'm used to is simply awesome. It's had such an impact on me that I'm moving everything I do to cloud services; the value of not just having my data everywhere but the tools I'm used to everywhere is very significant.

Open source doesn't (just) need visual or interaction designers. It needs product designers. I.E. people who say no. Needless to say, given the reality of FOSS, that's not going to happen.