Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
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If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    38 minutes ago

    I don’t really care one way or the other about Liquid Glass but if I could have Tiger on all my computers I’d be a happy camper

    • TechnoCat@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      There is a summary at the bottom of the article.

      Summary

      macOS Tahoe’s visual interface:

      • Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively rounded corners.
      • Enlarges controls without any functional benefit.
      • Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less distinguishable and memorable.
      • Fails to distinguish tools, controls and other interface elements using differences in tone, so making them harder to use.
      • Makes a mess where transparent layers are superimposed, and won’t reduce transparency when that’s needed to render its interface more accessible.

      Maybe this is because I’m getting older, but that gives me the benefit of having experienced Apple’s older interfaces, with their exceptional quality and functionality.

        • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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          47 minutes ago

          I initially thought it was slop, and then I looked at who wrote it. This is someone I have a lot of respect for.

          Personally, I’ve used every Mac UI from the original Twiggy interface, and prefer the UI of Mac OS 7.6.1 with Greg’s Browser, OtherMenu and DragThing. If I could get a macOS back-end with that user interface on the front end, I feel I could get stuff done faster with less frustration.

          There was nothing wrong with the original Xerox PARC or Apple HIG documents; their findings still hold true today.

        • CandleTiger@programming.devEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          I mean… it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.

          <old man shakes fist at cloud> I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.

          But I can’t say I expect shaking fists at clouds is likely to accomplish much.