Microsoft Gui design
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Although the two are very much connected, there is a difference between usability design and pure graphic design. As I´m sure you would agree with me on, that the latter should be used as a tool to achieve good usability.While I think MS isn't all that bad with regards to usability design I think their products suffer from the fact that they just don`t look and feel elegant. They are seldom easy on the eye and it often looks like the graphics where designed after the application and that there is little quality control.
Apple excels at combining the two and I reckon they spend months creating pixel perfect mockups before they write a single line of code (you are right jfletcher, I do think they work their asses off). I once read that an apple product chief used a real magnifying glass to examine every pixel of an application. Maybe a bit overkill, but the devil is after all in the details and your code might be excellent but users will think its crap when they see bad graphics. Consciously or not..