Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Jun 12, 2025

Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

Show threadArquiteto Móvel (Alexandre)
@tuomas_h yep , but when you scroll down the main bar overlays showing the content.
Jun 16, 2025 at 11:29amWeb
Show threadTuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Jun 16, 2025
@arquitetomovel What I’m calling for is more “usable” area for the content. If you place a book behind a piece of frosted glass, you can maybe see that it’s there, but you can’t read any of the text through the material. It’s the exact same thing here.