Fraser Speirs has a couple of posts bout the “niceness of things” and the “seriousness of software”.
I can’t say I agree with his assessment of software. Some software he includes as being “ikea” I have come to depend on whereas some “nice” software I find to be annoying and frustrating. I guess a lot of it is in the expectations and I have presumbaly vastly different expectations from Mr Speirs.
He refers to “Mac Polish”, a post from Justin Williams. I must say I agree with some of it as well. I’m not particularly bothered by keyboard access unless of course he means it has well assigned keyboard shortcuts. I tend to rely on the Mac staples anyway.
Anyway – more important than “Mac Polish” is something called “function”.
Our first app you will likely interact with once. It should become part of your life, essential as the operating system itself, but it’s not something that you’ll see every day and in my opinion that will be no excuse for having poor UI.