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

Post by redwall_hp » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 4:53 AM UTC

mxcrossb wrote: post #46

dimmke wrote: post #18

I have to be honest and go completely against the crowd here - but I think the UI updates are very good. They make the two OSes look cohesive but in a tasteful way. The extra padding in all of the UI is the only thing that I chafe at a little bit, it feels unnecessary. I really don't think they're going to put out touch screen Macs. So I'm not sure what there is to get upset about. I don't see any big functional chan…

Well that and the fact that tech website users basically complain about every UI change. Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience. This is fundamentally different than apple’s core fan base who seem to like any change just for the sake of change.

Post by snuxoll » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:10 AM UTC

SllX wrote: post #170

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #156

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> in the case of the proxy icon, the types of interactions you could perform with it were mostly undiscoverable and unknown to a lot of users. That's a good point I hadn't thought of -- I love the proxy icon. I'm glad it's still there, but this kind of feels like Apple is implicitly saying, "Look, for the ten of you who knew what this was, you still do it, but we're just hiding it from everyone else, sorry."

It’s easy to take every UI change as an affront, particularly when somebody changes something we liked. Just from what I’ve seen though, it appears the goal is a simply a more space efficient UI. It’s not a bad goal, even though I still want to beat them over the head with the Dock which functioned better under NeXTSTEP than it ever did under Mac OS X, and the stoplight isn’t doing anyone any favors over the Mac OS 9…

Post by cxr » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #179

Why such fascination with rounded corners?

Post by speedgoose » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:22 AM UTC

eqtn wrote: post #233

jacurtis wrote: post #32

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I agree completely. The only real gripe I feel is that excessive padding. It is sort of like scrolling through Dribbble app mockups. The layouts look amazing as a mockup, but when you actually go to make or use the app it isn't as practical as you want. On a desktop, with a mouse, I have near-perfect precision. I don't need overly-padded icons and windows because I have the precision of a mouse. The extra padding jus…

This might be for apple to introduce touch screen on macs.

Post by golemiprague » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:36 AM UTC