It would help if you had seething more specific to say about usability rather than blindly defending the bland conformity: for example, if your music player app looks like your physical old round CD music player, not a rectangle, how exactly does it hurt usability?
> Applications that implement their own widgets or color schemes or nonstandard shapes usually pay zero attention to usability or accessibility.
OS are close to this, pick any era of the constantly changing OS color schemes and widget design, and you'll find plenty of issues, with the basics of the basics - readability - suffering.
So again, why should everyone be generically bad just because they wrote the "guidelines"? Sure, change doesn't mean good, but the neither does using the defaults
> Applications that implement their own widgets or color schemes or nonstandard shapes usually pay zero attention to usability or accessibility.
OS are close to this, pick any era of the constantly changing OS color schemes and widget design, and you'll find plenty of issues, with the basics of the basics - readability - suffering.
So again, why should everyone be generically bad just because they wrote the "guidelines"? Sure, change doesn't mean good, but the neither does using the defaults