@gruber Can’t wait for your coverage of the latest typographic crime at the White House, most egregious yet. Column too wide, weird rag, bizarre margins, and why the fuck couldn’t the most powerful office on Earth get a plaque sized correctly to fit all the text? So deeply crappy and tacky. To say nothing of the despicable content of course
https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ppatqq/new_plaques_added_to_the_presidential_hall_of/ @airbuddy Is this github page you? The "download airbuddy" button links to a verrrryyy sketchy page that instructs users to enter a base64-encoded terminal command, which asks for the admin password, downloads a dodgy-looking binary, and executes it. Seems bad
https://github.com/AirBuddy-Mac Well this is interesting: the official Figma UI kit for iOS 26 enables a new "Glass" effect style. So much for the idea that one of the differentiators for liquid glass is that you can't do it in Figma. Super cool, I have to imagine that Apple and
@Figma collaborated on this.
Trying the iOS 26/liquid glass beta and it’s reinforcing this post. UI disappearing mistily into device edges: check. I predict we see this on all four sides of the squarish, convex new homeOS device, Apple’s bubbliest squircle ever.
https://mastodon.social/@hova414/114141662389058346I don't think everything is going to become a chat or voice UI — but I think the notion of information at the bottom of the stack, of having to dig around for it in many hiding places, of needing to find the right page or button to perform an action, is going to feel very quaint when Ive and Altman are done. And I think a lot of graphical UI will be generated, not designed: "Can you brighten that photo please? Too much—give me a knob to do it. Actually, give me some brush controls."
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/My take as a product designer: they want to own AI's disruption of 40 years of UX/UI—and the threat to Apple therein. UX design has always been about creating a control surface so perfect for a task that users forget they're giving the computer step by step instructions. LLMs obviate the need for step by step instructions — possibly obviating the need for much of our graphical UI world. Especially the puzzlebox of OS→app→page→file→info that Apple epitomizes
Why is the emoji picker in macOS so bad? Takes forever to appear, long delay after you pick an emoji, and half the time it fails to actually insert the emoji you pick unless you manually drag the emoji out of the panel into your text, or restart your Mac. Too small & hard to use. Raycast's emoji search is way better but I never remember to use it.
