I've often wondered myself.....


>The theory that all apps must/should look the same seems like common sense until you surf the net (including UT) and you quickly see that there seems to be another dynamic at play: "make your interface as different as possible so that it will stand out from the crowd".
>Can these two be reconciled? Who is the arbiter of what looks "right"? Don't we sometimes insult people's intelligence by assuming that they cannot handle anything as weird as a non rectangular command button? How come Microsoft can change the look of buttons etc and that's OK but not the rest of us? BTW these are all rhetorical questions - just venting...