Reminder that Design should be not just about how it looks but also how it works...

I was hoping since we can move Widgets onto the desktop that perhaps we'd get more spacing for Notifications but nope... 😒

You're a good designer if you can make something work well and is intuitive -- not merely just (in your opinion, making it look good).

Also this is the weirdest background fade I've ever seen... why? Why it like this?

No because look at how useful it used to be! Everything was clear, legible, none of this "on hover" bs... and look how many notifications you can have in the list view... wow!

Why does macOS continue to just regress?

@marioguzman Remember when there were no notifications? These were the times. The OS wouldn't annoy and beg for your attention all the time.
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My head canon is that they lost something culturally important with Forstall’s ouster, Jony was never a software designer, and neither is Dye.
@marioguzman I have no idea. Information density is awful these days and legibility went out the window a good few years ago 😞
@marioguzman what was the sherlocked app before this design… thinking… thinking…
@dk growl or growler or something like that? LOL
Growl, once a staple of the Mac desktop experience, has been retired

Apple’s Notification Center had already long ago replaced Growl in most cases.

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@dk @marioguzman growl was so good and so much better than native notifications. I absolutely loved the notification log to catch people’s skype-messages-in-the-wrong-chat-they-deleted.

@marioguzman it’s so bad!! My running theory is that Apple is bad at retaining talent, and shifts people around too often. There’s no way there’s a “Notifications Team,” and instead we’re seeing some work to bring things into visual alignment, then moving on to something else. Like all software, the problem is ultimately mismanagement because you KNOW people in the company are bothered by this, too!

It’s sooooo frustrating, whatever the reasons

@splendorr @marioguzman I arrive late to this thread, and I’m totally with you, Mario. I also share Nick’s theory. It would explain not only the UI regressions, but also the inconsistencies. I also think there are very few people left at Apple who have Mac OS UI experience going back to the days when Mac OS UI was almost flawless.

@marioguzman YES ITS SO BEAUTIFUL! Notifications drive me BANANAS all the time. They never show anything. You have to click click click with a nonsensical way to get something useful. And you have to hover and click to dismiss them.

Example: text messages, where you use to be able to click and just reply, now you have to click "show more” (because that makes sense!).

I hate them so much.