Greg Kaplan

@kaplag
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🛩️ Web Product Manager at JetBlue
🐈🐈‍⬛ Cat dad
🪴 plant... custodian?
🧗🏻‍♂️ Climbs walls in spare time
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Good test of how much fast-charging and battery-health settings affect iPhone battery health over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5Cg_yNdM

(tl;dr: some, but not much)

Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

YouTube
Don’t be like Amy. Ask the bigger questions like Melanie.

@matt_birchler hey are you gonna be able to get your hands on the m5 AVP?

Since you had similar issues with the quality of the virtual display I was wondering if that “10%” pixel increase had any meaningful improvements to text sharpness.

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

Warning: animated GIFs without controls (which is ironic given how the author complains about distracting animations)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

#iOS #LiquidGlass #UX #UXFail #Apple

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.

Nielsen Norman Group

I think there is a group of people who whom the less substantiated something is, the more they trust it. It’s “secret knowledge.” You see this in productivity gurus as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/health/kennedy-autism-tylenol-trump.html

More upsell bullshit from Apple when… redeeming a gift card.

A full-screen ad for a promo credit in a game (1). Tap "No Thanks”, and it even stops to try to convince you one more time (2).

Reminds me of the subscription-cancellation screen, which also now shows huge ads to try to convince you not to cancel (3).

This is *system UI*.

If Apple still had courage they would've opened the keynote with this. @atpfm
@jonathanreed definitely seems to be the USA catching up to the rest of the world. They are all over the place in London (as you noted).

Lol, just learned of this satire site:
https://americabydesign.fail

If you replace ".fail" with ".gov", you can see the original gov site.
#uspol #design #ux

America by Design Fail

Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government

America by Design