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What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Post by chrisweekly »

doot wrote: post #187
PostThisTooFast wrote: post #81

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I don't see it as a sign of "doom," but rather more regression. It took YEARS for Apple to admit that their keyboards were shit, and they still haven't admitted that the emoji bar on their so-called "pro" computers is an embarrassing and failed gimmick. In fact, they've doubled down on it and now don't offer ANY proper laptop keyboard. But that's off-topic to some extent; I scanned through this page looking for some…

> Topping my list is support for SVG assets. NOPE. WTF? From the Xcode 12 Beta Release Notes: > Added support for Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) image assets. These preserve their vector representation with deployment targets of macOS 10.15 or later, iOS 13 or later, and iPadOS 13 or later. (18389814) > Android has had this how long? Apple's "@2x", "@3X" bitmaps were amateur-hour to begin with, but a decade later? No…

PDF !!!= SVG

Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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michaelmrose wrote: post #176
dimmke wrote: post #65

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I agree, any change will be frowned upon. It just annoys me that I feel like they're drawing the completely wrong conclusions. Apple was the company that dropped the headphone jack from their phone, shipped a laptop with only USB-C ports etc... they don't shy away from making big controversial decisions if they feel like it's good for them. If Apple was going to do this to MacOS, they'd have already done it. They wou…

I still don't understand how anyone with hundreds of billions of dollars ships really crappy anything. Like do hundreds of people just pretend that a crappy keyboard isn't garbage or is it so siloed that most people never get an opportunity to register an opinion?

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Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Post by samcat116 »

bitL wrote: post #9

It looks like iPadOS, so instead of adding more functions to iDevices, it seems like we'll be seeing more "dumbization" for macDevices :-(

Genuine question: Have they removed any features that make it less functional? There seems to be this belief that if it looks closer to iOS or iPadOS, then its “dumber” since in the past those product lines have been less capable than the Mac.

Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Post by henriquez »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #149
72deluxe wrote: post #121

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How about the non-modifiable hidden system partition? Inability to create directories under / That alone has stopped me moving my Macs to the latest OS after testing.

I'm genuinely curious: why do you want to create new directories at the root level? Is this something you're just used to doing and it breaks your customary way of working? Is it a "general principle" thing (which I suspect is a lot of the objection the HN crowd really has at the root, no pun intended)? I've been using OS X-based Macs since 2002 and used Linux and FreeBSD for a decade before that, and I don't recall…

I put symlinks in the root directory for my commonly used paths. Or I did before Catalina. Yes it’s kind of a dumb thing but it also seems dumb and arbitrary that I’m no longer _allowed_ to.

Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Post by thewisenerd »

yssrn wrote: post #13

Virtually all of these changes reduce contrast and differentiation between controls while simultaneously decreasing information density. All bad news for people who work on their computers for a living.

i've had "increase contrast" (and implicitly "reduce transparency") enabled since whenever I started using macOS. I really hope those accessibility options work well to reduce whatever changes they're trying to bring about.

on the same note; the"decreasing information density" I don't think would be a problem if you're switching between the "terminal/IDE/browser/excel". the "table views" still seem fairly "compact" so..? /shrug

Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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thewisenerd wrote: post #195
yssrn wrote: post #13

Virtually all of these changes reduce contrast and differentiation between controls while simultaneously decreasing information density. All bad news for people who work on their computers for a living.

i've had "increase contrast" (and implicitly "reduce transparency") enabled since whenever I started using macOS. I really hope those accessibility options work well to reduce whatever changes they're trying to bring about. on the same note; the"decreasing information density" I don't think would be a problem if you're switching between the "terminal/IDE/browser/excel". the "table views" still seem fairly "compact" s…

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Re: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

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Post by ricohboy »

RivieraKid wrote: post #164
_bxg1 wrote: post #126

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macOS installers exist; I think they were used more commonly before the .app format, but that's how you get the Windows situation where the "uninstall" operation is a crapshoot because relevant files are scattered across your system. I don't know the exact purpose behind the "mount a virtual drive to install an app" model, but it seems far too deliberate to not have a purpose.

I'm sure there's some rationale behind it. But it's simply a UX fail.

I barely even notice it now. I’ve been a Mac user since OS 8, and the workflow of mounting a disk image to install software has been around since before OS 8. Regular .pkg installers catch me off guard sometimes
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