Industrial designer & maker, human interface designer at Bang & Olufsen. I fight for the user in all domains. I’m passionate about photography and love food, sound and natural landscapes.
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I update all my iPhone apps manually (if I do, as you can maybe tell…) and every once in a while when doing that, I glance at the Today page on the App Store.
Now we have *three* “AI” apps at the top, usually it’s just ChatGPT. And of course Temu holding onto the top “ad” spot – I have never seen anything else there.
SAS doesn’t seem to believe adding boarding passes to Apple Wallet is something their customers want… instead they have implemented a Siri shortcut to open the boarding pass in their app, which totally doesn’t scratch the same itch, and you can’t even open a boarding pass shared by someone else without having their app installed.
Might be I just don’t know how to use the damn thing, but I also haven’t had these issues with other airlines I’ve travelled with so far.
Mac apps used to be both functional and also very beautiful. That is, until the Flat UI folks got involved and ruined it all with their “Less is More”, elevated-content, Dieter Rams-wannabe bullshit.
Look how gorgeous and usable this app looks. You *actually* want to use it.
From MacintoshGarden Feed:
https://bitbang.social/@macgarden/116315476136631445
With Mac apps just all over the place (react native, AI slop, Catalyst apps, Mobile-first apps)... I thought I'd maybe try to rein it in a bit with this new article I have published.
It is not exhaustive and it is not done yet (I have more items to add) -- but I thought I'd share it now.
It's a checklist of things you can do to your #macOS app to make it feel more Mac-y. These are in response to things (even simple, obvious things) that I just don't see anymore. :(
RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/116310400632098097
This era of truly expressive icon design needs to make a comeback. Abolish the Squircle Jail.
This is Mac OS X 10.1 with the 10.2 installer disc… I always found it odd that the marketing for the installer didn't match the marketing on the box (the Jaguar styled `X`).
Anyway, look at the Dock icons. It's insane that you could just scan left-to-right each one and immediately have a good idea what that app might be for.
Well, except IE. Marketing icons aren't typically good indicators but by 2002, IE was pretty well established. But these icons do a better job than today's icons in macOS.
TIL Iceland does not turn clocks back and forth two times a year. It’s also beautiful here.
We should all do like Iceland.
…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.
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