Radu Dutzan

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Digital designer
in training since 2001
for money since 2007

Wannabe iOS developer since 2011
Making @doppi since 2015

Bitter & acidic, caring & loving, chaotic good

Websitehttps://radu.cl/
Doppihttps://doppi.app/
Portfoliohttps://radu.cl/work/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jblake/116267530632641970

At first I thought they hired de With because they were trying to rebuild a solid HI team, but now I don’t think that’s the case. Disappointing, yet unsurprising

Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.

But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.

I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

@eljojo Ive had some good concepts, but iOS never recovered from the great usability regression of 2013
I stand corrected, it’s not just the Air this year: https://mastodon.social/@tuomas_h/116248948610311543
@mrudokas I would pay a nice monthly fee for automated marketing, I think it might pay for itself fairly quickly. Startup idea right there
@tuomas_h Oh that’s pretty cool. They probably still have the spacer though, right?
@tuomas_h …intrinsic physicality (see: iPhone Shortcuts editor bottom sheet) does feel like it’s pushing the state of the art, and definitely helps the user know a touch device is responsive to input in a way we couldn’t do before. Yes, lots of these lack polish, taste, consistency, or all of those, but the underlying concepts are good, IMO. If they can keep pushing on the positive aspects and reel in the crazy and weird visual distractions, I think this could be net-positive.
@tuomas_h Really good question. I think the controls that morph into menus or sheets can help users understand semantic relationships and the expected next step in a flow. Pinchable sheets might seem silly, but they get us closer to an ideal of directly-manipulable, always-zoomable UI, same as the visionOS feature that lets you pinch any window. Pinching is a powerful interaction that remains underutilized. The liveliness of a UI that’s hyper-reactive to touch and expresses …

I guess that “nothing” translated into the viability and worldwide availability of the Air, by showing carriers that the writing’s on the wall and they should adopt eSIM ASAP. It’s great strategy.

If you can only forget that your current iPhone has a useless chunk of plastic inside, literally just taking up space, then maybe one day, ten years on, we might all be able to have smaller phones, or a bigger battery, even. Just not today. Today, inert chunk of plastic inside.