Brent Simmons
Matthias„Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design
A universal design across platforms brings more focus to content and a new level of vitality.“
The Macinthrope
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@Doomscroll In my case, I’m engineer and designer. But I’ve been engineer-only sometimes, and there are some things engineers can control: bugs, performance, latency, and stability. Even an app with a middling design can be better-loved than a well-designed competitor app that crashes, has bugs, is slow, and is otherwise frustrating to actually use despite its better design.
Do those things. Do them as part of everyday practice; do them even when management isn’t asking for them.
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As of today, all mentions of Liquid Glass have disappeared from developer.apple.com (the main home page). This may or may not mean anything... but I've been watching for it.
John BalestrieriApple violating basic tenets of the OS for… marketing purposes?
Why must my Applications folder be cursed with identically named apps?
Fuck this translucency shit. Not sure how this has made my content front and center.
Good article.
The Window Chrome of Our Discontent
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
Twenty three default items in this contextual menu. Is all of this really necessary? A lot of this feels marketing-driven. Especially items like “take photo”. And why is “freeze header” an option here when I’m not clicking on the header?
Took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to add an existing playlist to my Apple Watch. There’s a liiiiitle tiny + button when you’re looking at the playlist screen. 🙄
And after I added it, it didn’t immediately sync the music. 😡
Jason LefkowitzI occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it
For some reason the iTunes Music Store on Mac uses a serif font to draw contextual menus. I’m guessing someone screwed up the CSS, since the store is just a web view. It’s been this way for a very long time — which means that either Apple has chosen to ignore this bug, or nobody that works there actually uses this product.
