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posted by Fnord666 on Friday June 30 2017, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the rethinkpad dept.

Just days after Lenovo Group Chief Yang Yuanqing hinted that Lenovo may be pulling out of the PC and Server markets in favor of focusing on datacenters and mobile devices, long-time Thinkpad designer and Retro Thinkpad Project Manager David Hill has announced his resignation from the company. Mr. Hill, who had been in charge of the original ThinkPad design in the early 90's and rose to the rank of Vice President of Design at Lenovo, states:

"I want to broaden my view and create the opportunity to do more in the field of design, not less."

The 25th Anniversary "Retro ThinkPad" project, which was in development for over two years and received over 13,000 responses from long-time ThinkPad fans, is still, for the time being, scheduled for an October 5th announcement. Could internal pressures to minimize costs have resulted in Mr. Hill deciding to take his name off the Retro ThinkPad project which he spearheaded for two and a half years?


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 30 2017, @09:04PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 30 2017, @09:04PM (#533697)

    The low-res screens of yesteryear used to be filled with lines indicating boundaries of elements, clickablility, and as much info as one could cram into a 640x480 window.

    Recent Apple-inspired UI designs achieve a "clean" design by hiding all of these and separating everything with a lot of white space. Not only do you have to hover over something to know whether it's a status or a button, making it less intuitive, but the density of information on the screen is lower than before, despite having at least 10 times more pixels.
    Besides the UI, website content has also followed the trend of less density, which unquestionably helps readability, but requires more scrolling to browse the same amount.

    I should re-install an old mouse-tracking program and see how many more pixels I traverse daily to accomplish the same task as before (and most of my input is text-based).

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @04:25AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 01 2017, @04:25AM (#533814) Journal

    Got any screenshot with god vs bad UI design in this regard?

    Btw, Considering the competence here. I'm sure people could make a design without these flaws and ram it down on the public and corporations.