Inspired Design

Every once in a while, a ground-breaking step is taken in the world of software UI design. Kai’s power tools come to mind… Windows’ command-tab window switching… The Finder’s column view… and now I give you…

Lsongs: The music player for Lindows (now known as Linspire). What breathtaking simplicity! What a fantastic feature set! What a cheap knockoff of iTunes!

And that’s not all folks! For your Windows-knockoff operating system, you can also run.. dun dun dun.. Lphoto, a cheap iPhoto ripoff as well.

Those Lindows – excuse me, Linspire designers really know how to fuck up a simple UI, don’t they? Christ. “I know, let’s put the rotate photo icon in the same exact place, but we’ll uh… uh.. put the arrow.. on the other side of the photo icon! Yeah! And then we’ll uh.. uh… keep the zoom photo widget in exactly the same spot but uh.. remove.. uh.. any context as to what that widget is for! Yeah! This is going to rule!

Thanks to SU for the links.

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