Mastodawn

“There’s no way to put the genie back into the bottle,” insist AI boosters about a product that the industry is spending more than a trillion dollars a year to keep out of the bottle.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦3h ago

Mario Guzmán 20h ago

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. :(

https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/macintoshchecklist/

Macintosh Checklist

A list of to-dos before you publish your Mac app.

Mario Guzman

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦1d ago

Kleinur are my new favourite thing. #iceland

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/116310400632098097

This era of truly expressive icon design needs to make a comeback. Abolish the Squircle Jail.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦1d ago

Mario Guzmán 1d ago

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.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦1d ago

TIL Iceland does not turn clocks back and forth two times a year. It’s also beautiful here.

We should all do like Iceland.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦3d ago

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Paul Cantrell 4d ago

…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•.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦3d ago

trickykat Jul 3, 2025

the impact of a dad joke can be measured on a sighsmograph

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦4d ago

Natasha

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Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: I can do the Bowie part, but I don't have the upper range to sing the Freddie part.

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦4d ago

Fight Chat Control 4d ago

The European Parliament is voting again THURSDAY 26th at 11:00 on Chat Control. The Commission, Council, multiple tech giants, the Conservatives (EPP), and several MEPs from S&D and Renew stand united in favouring indiscriminate mass surveillance.

Tell them NO: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

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