i know this is nitpicky potatoes but this interaction between the macOS Tahoe Finder’s sidebar and status bar is truly wild.
it’s an extremely hard problem to solve! when you suddenly “float” a thing that has to sit directly next to lots of weird things
@cabel I am working on a Mac app and Tahoe’s design has filled me with despair. No idea what I’m going to do.
Like what even happened? Nothing makes sense. Their explanations are word salad
@jgordon I think that’s giving the interns too little credit.
@[email protected] The issue is direction, not execution. It’s not that I’m not there, or that another designer isn’t there. It’s that the company put people in directorial roles who don’t have good taste. I have no doubt there are many designers at Apple who could pull off the right thing if given good direction or if they had more power to challenge those without good taste.
@splorp Well, I mean, I love user interface but I just tinker with web design.
I found it! it's called the safe area for the Content View:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqTn9NgiE1s&t=566s
My thought is that when the status bar is on, it should be reflected left under the sidebar, too.
@cabel
@cabel Concentricity is an elusive goal.
https://mastodon.social/search?q=from%3Achockenberry+concentricity
@cabel The official solution to this problem is to mirror the content on the right and extend it underneath the side bar. Which is mostly OK for images.
Good thing that we never have text to the right.
@louie @cabel And, of course, the desktop background will show through to "make it pop".
I feel like the root of these problems are the folks making these decisions don't understand the platform nearly as well as those of us who have been using it for decades. (Four, in my case.)
I don't see it getting any better until that changes.
@chockenberry Yes. I said this in my recent post too— I think some people working on this stuff don’t know, like, or even respect the platform for what it is. The fact that Alan Dye just was never a digital person until he was given this position says so much.
(I don’t think this applies wholly to the group. I just think the people who get it have been overruled by people who don’t.)
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