Nokia’s MeeGo chief criticizes Apple’s iOS user interface

“Peter Skillman, who was the chief designer of the Palm Pre, left Palm this summer after it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.2 billion,” Phil Goldstein reports for FierceWireless. “He is now the head of user experiences and services for MeeGo, Nokia’s high-end device platform, which the company developed with Intel. Speaking to the Campbell, Calif.-based design firm Zurb, in what became a podcast, Skillman said that Apple’s approach to the user experience is flawed because it forces users to hit the home screen before using a new application.”

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Goldstein reports, “‘If a user wants to walk from the kitchen to the dining room in her house, she simply walks through,’ Skillman said. ‘It does not work like that in mobile–you have to go through the front door to get to the kitchen. iPhone has a home button which works like a go-back-to-front-door button. This is not a model that human beings are used to. People are spatial.'”

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Here’s a hint for Apple’s roadkill: If you’re lucky enough to still be drawing breath, STFU and get back to work. You don’t have time for babbling inanities about the steamroller that flattened you.