@RonsCompVids I was always a huge fan of the “Snow White” design language, with the Apple IIgs and Apple IIc being the most beautiful of them all. I gave most of those products with that design a “least ugly” rating. Also the original iMac I always thought was quite beautiful.
Apple changed it up a little with their mid-90s design language just prior to the return of Steve Jobs, with what I would deem “mixed results.” The later Quadra 600 series, and the Performa 6000 series, and the Color Classic, were sort-of “Snow White” except more minimalist in the design, which I liked a lot but weren’t as nice without the airflow lines of something like the Macintosh IIsi or SE/30.
The Molar Mac and Twentieth Anniversary Mac were the ugliest. (Also the JLPGA Macs.)
Also, just want to remind everyone that @NanoRaptor frequently does parodies of Apple design, check out this article about some of her creations.
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The Pluriological Aesthetic reflects a discipline’s non-verbal sensory worldview across visual, sonic, spatial, color, movement, textual, symbolic, and emotional domains. It emphasizes relati…
"A “user” is, reductively, someone who uses. An “actor” is someone who acts on a system, or, even better, interacts with that system."
"A “user” is, reductively, someone who uses. An “actor” is someone who acts on a system, or, even better, interacts with that system."
"A “user” is, reductively, someone who uses. An “actor” is someone who acts on a system, or, even better, interacts with that system."
"A “user” is, reductively, someone who uses. An “actor” is someone who acts on a system, or, even better, interacts with that system."
"A “user” is, reductively, someone who uses. An “actor” is someone who acts on a system, or, even better, interacts with that system."
@vmbrasseur it’s particularly annoying if you use #accessibility features to make the device more useable – I use larger text sizes (old eyes 😩), reduce transparency & reduce motion, on / off labels, & increase contrast to make the UI more tolerable & obvious (to me), & it’s clear that they haven’t done a lot of (any? 🤔) testing of how these features modify or break the new #UI elements / “#DesignLanguage” 😤
I hate seeing accessibility being relegated to an afterthought by most OS & app devs, but it’s particularly galling when it’s one of the richest companies on the planet (they also clearly don’t do a lot of testing / #UAT of how much #LockdownMode breaks things even in their own apps, but that’s a separate rant 😜)
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Getting clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass · Apple’s design language from a front-end perspective https://ilo.im/165gdx
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Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I've found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.
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From skeuomorphic to liquid glass · Apple is preparing users for a UI paradigm shift https://ilo.im/164n93
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