Tag: deception

… mdja It’s still a significant difference in offering. Actually the figures themselves give by far the clearest (and most compelling) indication of the offer. (530 vs 510 or less). Jonathan Yes, it’s (I think) about 4% more. There are probably many other ways you might be able to impress this offer on people without implying that they’d get double the value. What, for example, can you buy with 20 Euro? Something fairly decent I would imagine….

Every time I decide to pen a rant about some user experience issue or other, I feel a bit guilty. Guilty because I know it’s hard to be positive, easy to be cynical, and makes me look nasty. But I’m going to justify this one on the grounds that if countless hoards of designers are bleating about how good something is even if it’s objectively full of holes, I have a duty to counter-balance the situation by pointing out this fact. Apple’s dominance…