Just wondering, who decided that the best way to arrange things on a computer screen is through a bunch of barely organized tiles. It used to be that everything was organized in a simple list. But that's passé, apparently. Google+ used to be a list, but now it has the tiles too. Facebook is probably like that by now, I should log in again and check.
What worries me about this is that as far as I can tell, the trend started with Microsoft. They introduced the tiles for Windows Phone, and the new interface for Windows 8 that everyone hates. Flickr just adopted it for it's relaunch, and it's slowly spreading.
That's just not how this is supposed to work. Apple is the one you copy user interfaces from. Maybe everyone assumed that with Microsoft so boldly adopting the new paradigm, they must have copied it from Apple. But is Apple using tiles? No, their products still use nice elegant grids and lists of things.
Worse, when I just looked it up at Wikipedia, I find out that the whole thing comes from the Zune! Why not copy Windows Vista while you're at it?
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