Nudge in human-centred approaches
There are lots of parallels between behavioural science and human-centred approaches. Nudge models give us the opportunity to bring an extra level of formality to our approaches.https://duncanstephen.net/nudge-in-human-centred-approaches/
First Apple Glass didn't learn from Windows Vista. Now Apple's Tahoe icons didn't learn from … Apple.
The issue is bigger than a mere disregard for the principles in the 1992 guidelines. It's that training for User Interface designers is nonexistent. As the old guard retires, untrained designers reinvent square wheels.
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Interesting talk from Scott Jenson. Apple and Microsoft have stopped innovating on the desktop UI. So what should we do next?
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecess...
A very interesting take on how we came from the command line prompt to a graphical user interface. Just to go back to the command line prompt. Was it all for nothing?
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John Gruber @gruber makes a lot of really good points in this, & hopefully we’ll see a renaissance in user interface design at Apple with this change. This point really stood out for me, though:
“I am not a Liquid Glass hater. I actually think, on the whole, iOS 26 is a better and more usable UI than iOS 18. But MacOS 26 Tahoe is a mess, visually, and I’m not sure there’s a single thing about its UI that is better than MacOS 15 Sequoia.”
Service design and the Mario complex
At Service Design in Government, I discovered that service designers see themselves as Mario. But that is an unrealistic model for what service design should be.https://duncanstephen.net/service-design-and-the-mario-complex/
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