NikiJan 5
New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons. With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me
Show threadNikiJan 5
Aaand we are off to the races. 1h 11min
Show threadNikiJan 6

160K unique visitors, 12hrs at the front page of HN, 3hrs as #1

Hope that’s enough for Apple to notice

Show threadArnold S
@nikitonsky congrats! The decline of Apple’s UX prowess has a silver lining - by become less competent, they have become more receptive to public feedback. There is a good chance this post will be a wake-up call for someone internally, just like how all the Liquid Glass outage gave us iOS 26.1.
Jan 6 at 4:01pmWeb