Overdoing the interface metaphor →
Personal pet peeve: apps that try to go too far to create a metaphor with the real world. Marco’s thoughts on this are excellent. Love his examples of Soulver and Instapaper.
We’re often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad.
But it’s not absolute, and it’s not always the best idea. My favorite counterexample is the typical calculator…
