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WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by troupo »

memco wrote: post #6
ehutch79 wrote: post #2

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I think the article kind of tramples on its own point by showing a very long history of the changes to the Finder’s icon over the years, but I think what it’s trying to say is that it has been mostly unchanged for many years so it shouldn’t change now. It now has a gray box all the way around instead of two blue faces that go all the way to the edge. However, it simultaneously showed that it has been redesigned sever…

Even when redesigned they were surprisingly consistent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237854

New "designers" at Apple keep changing things for the sake of changing things

Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by visarga »

If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing department chose to replace consecrated terms. Just today it took me 5 minutes to unearth the Speech Rate settings.

It feels like using Siri and not knowing the magic words. Come on Apple, synonym matching is easy. Just use a LLM to generate synonyms to all things a user might query in settings! Use a small embedding model if you feel daring, it works fast enough.

Oh, this reminds me that Azure, GCP and AWS also need AI assistants that actually know their way around instead of declining to help for anything above looking up some docs. Why can't I ask Azure in what region the still have A100 GPUs? That's what the assistant should be good at - integration with live data and ability to solve cloud problems.

Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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troupo wrote: post #18
laborcontract wrote: post #8

This is simply gatekeeping. I understand writing an article about it but filing a radar? The only thing the author wants to do here is a fandom flex. Ironically, his pictures prove that the icons have changed a lot! What’s the canonical face anyway? You can look at the prior icon and argue they broke canon there removing the black center stroke and clipping the overflowing line.

> What’s the canonical face anyway? Darker on the left, lighter on the right. Flush with the surrounding box. Evokes the feeling of two people: one looking straight at you, and one profile face. Even the profile face is broken in the new redesign.

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Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by lsy »

The new icon looks weird not just because it's a change, but because if you think of the face as being 3D and illuminated by a light source, the new icon doesn't scan as easily as the old one. You'd have to assume the face is turning away from you but the light is slightly backlighting them and putting the closer part in shadow. Anyways it's a small change but I do think it indicates people internally aren't thinking about whether the design makes sense.

Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by gs17 »

bastawhiz wrote: post #12

Without reading the text, it took me a solid three minutes to realize the difference in the comparison screenshot. Honestly I'm more upset by the non-centered window title.

Why would they do that? I didn't notice at first, but now that I've seen it, it's too distracting. Feels like change for the sake of change.

Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by brailsafe »

tw04 wrote: post #13
areoform wrote: post #9

In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. The friendly finder logo is such an essential part of MacOS that it's bizarre (at least to me) that they've changed the color symmetry of the face. Why would you do that? It's as iconic as the Apple silhouette for Apple users. If you've ever used MacOS, you've had that face stare back at you. It's a kind face. A friendly…

> In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. Trying to ditch twitter and tweets. I’ve yet to hear any normal person call it X yet. Which kind of proves your point.

The overwhelming majority of people I know in real life haven't actually been on the platform for years, if they ever were, and some of those have used X by default in the rare case in comes up. It's slowly changing, but was quickly dying before Trump and Elon got their hands on it. Mileage may vary, but I imagine there's an association between Twitter still being the old place where tired millennials shout about nothing to bots all day

Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History

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Post by flohofwoe »

areoform wrote: post #9

In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. The friendly finder logo is such an essential part of MacOS that it's bizarre (at least to me) that they've changed the color symmetry of the face. Why would you do that? It's as iconic as the Apple silhouette for Apple users. If you've ever used MacOS, you've had that face stare back at you. It's a kind face. A friendly…

> Why would you do that?

TBH, it's better if this new generation of Apple's UI designers waste their energy on such trivialities instead of trying to "improve" Finder features (not that Finder is all that great to begin with though).

Let them tinker with icons, fonts, colors and "evoking emotions" all day long, at least then they don't break any actually important stuff.

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