„Apple’s terrible UI design is not the fault of just one fall guy“

I totally agree. Things went a bit too far, said the Apple Fan Community.

Alan Dye is just one person, but for some reason, he became the personification of everything people dislike in this $3 trillion corporate company with 170k employees. Things that got said became really personal.
#apple #AlanDye #liquidglass

https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/

Hello #Apple Mastodon — a question for you:

Q1. Did software quality decrease more under Ive or Dye? (think in terms of rate of decrease, not in total quality)

(1/2)

🚀 Boosts appreciated.
#design #liquidglass #AlanDye

macOS Tahoe has almost completely ruined the typography palette, which is sad because it was SO IMPROVED in Sequoia, as @nickheer noted last year: https://c.im/@nickheer/112111864231807304

#macostahoe #typography #AlanDye

Dang, @gruber, tell us what you really think! 😳

“So it’s not just that Alan Dye jumped ship from Apple for the chief designer officer role at another company.1 It’s not just that he left for a rival company. It’s that he left Apple for Meta, of all companies. Given what Cook has said about Meta publicly, one can only imagine what he thinks about them privately.”

#Apple #DyeOut #AppleDesign #HumanInterfaceDesign #MetaPlatforms #AlanDye #TechNews #TimCook

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_cook_blind_spot

There’s a *lot* of talk about how great it is that Alan Dye has left Apple. I agree: UI design has been a disaster under Dye. Liquid Glass on the Mac in particular is a train wreck.

But as I’ve said before, OS X Lion was when the Mac UI began to go downhill. Reduced contrast, full screen mode on maximise, the death of Save As in favour of the useless Duplicate … the UI decay began long ago.

As with macOS Tahoe, there were lots of great technical improvements. But for users, especially novice users, it was a backward step followed by further backward steps.

Let’s hope that starts to reverse, and quickly.

#macos #alandye #byedye #osxlion

Alan Dye geht – Erleichterung bei Apple, Risiko für Meta
Alan Dye verlässt Apple und wechselt als neuer „Leitender Designverantwortlicher“ zu Meta. Bei Apple übernimmt der langjährige Interface-Designer Stephen Lemay die Führung der Software-Gestaltung – mit weitreichenden Konsequenzen.

https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/alan-dye-geht-erleichterung-bei-apple-risiko-fuer-meta/
#iPhone #News #AlanDye #Apple #Benutzeroberflche #Design #FlssigesGlas #iOS #macOS #Meta #StephenLemay