It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

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If I have a regret is that #FireAlanDye never caught on, and that’s actually only because he left that there’s now hope. Shame on Apple leadership for not seeing and fixing the problem on their own.

My plan was to skip Tahoe altogether, now the question is: can I last 2 years to give Lemay a fighting chance to fix it?
It’s really a long time double-booting for Xcode…

Still the best news out of tech in 2025, easily. (2/2)

Oh my God guys we did it!!!!!

Not only #FireAlanDye is a thing of the past, but this incompetent with no respect for the Mac will now help tank Meta.

There must exist a German word for joy that is overcome by more joy, with nothing but joy in between.

We’ve long established that #iOS26 is full of moronic design decisions, but putting together two buttons and have them bounce together no matter which one you tap must be the most incompetent one.

Never ceases to amaze me. #FireAlanDye

@jblake if it was clear it wouldn’t enforce squircles on everyone, it has to be bad to punish inconsistency. It’s such a shame they made squircle jail. #FireAlanDye https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/19/macos-tahoes-new-theming-system/
Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS Tahoe’s New Theming System

This is probably the last beta and #watchOS is melting.

The incompetence of this design never stops to amaze me.

iPad and iPhone? Ok, we can live with it. Far from improving anything, is an unnecessary inconvenience that is bearable.

Watch? Hardly tested, case in point this screenshot.

#Tahoe… I cannot think it could be possible to disrespect and know the Mac less.

#FireAlanDye

@marioguzman @brentsimmons While appreciate a single person isn’t the _whole_ problem, I believe the face and lead of the redesign should go.
I’ve been trying to make the #FireAlanDye hashtag happen for a while to unify our disappointment and sadness as Mac users but failed to gain any sort of traction. Please feel free to take it over with your much larger visibility if you feel like it.