Dear messaging app interface maintainers,
Please stop making me click "Read more..." to read just the last 3 words in a message. If it's long enough that it needs a short preview and a "Read more..." button, make the preview shorter so I can scroll past it more easily if I don't actually want to read more.
Don't make me think "you could have put the rest of the message in the space that "Read more..." takes up".
Flashback. I found a reminder of my July 2014 plan for a three-year transition away from Mac OS X.
From an October 2014 post:
― a screenshot of Apple bullshit in its revised Human Interface Guidelines.
＂… Safari … displays webpage titles in the URL bar …＂
I Am Me ‼️🇳🇬✅👍♥️🌈♐🏳️🌈
#IAmme #SelfPersonality
#bahdlex
Up And #Greatfull 🙏🌄🌞🌻
‼️Best of me‼️ #hig #Bahd‼️ #BE #bahdlexempire #Bahdlexblog
💯⚡#goodmorning #morning #viral #facebook #Goodmorning #GoodMorningEveryone
More energy for More strength 💯💯⚡
With the exception of the latter, the most basic interaction guidelines are not mentioned. At all. It's almost as if their design leadership has a clear focus on visual appearance over everything else. You know, that UI/UX thing, except without actual UX. Oh. Wait…
Compare that to the first topics of the @elementary #HIG:
https://docs.elementary.io/hig/
Introduction
Design Philosophy
What Design Is Not
Concision
Accessible Configuration
Minimal Documentation… (2/6)
The inconsistency of Tahoe’s design
I even collected them all together, so the absurdity of the situation is more obvious.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
I recommend reading the whole post. It’s an opus to how Tahoe UX design is an utter denunciation of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines – once considered to be the gospel of how interface design must be done.
I know it’s beating a dead horse at this pointI know it’s beating a dead horse at this point. Tahoe is a complete disgrace when it comes to user interface design. I don’t want to conflate this as denouncing Liquid Glass – although I still have issues with it. It’s how Tahoe is the worst implementation of it to the point where Mac OS isn’t what it is supposed to be.
Anyway, here’s to hoping all the changes with the leadership is all going to bear fruit sometime soon.
I’ve also realized that I might skip a mac OS version for the first time ever, esp now that I’ve successfully reverted my Mac back to Sequoia.
#apple #hig #humanInterfaceGuidelines #macOs #userInterface #ux
Did I create a whole-ass layout in SwiftUI that looks like a real, native Mac email app to be the hero image for my Macintosh Guidelines (Mario's Mac HIG) webpage?
Yes, yes I did...
(and don't forget to read my all new HIG topic on Sidebars!)
#macOS #HIG #SwiftUI #AppKit
https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/
This new Sidebar Guidelines page joins Layout Guidelines and Toolbar Guidelines. https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/
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