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Hardware Design: check Hardware: check Software Design: check Software: please!
I can get on board with this. I feel as if that has fallen off a cliff, in the last decade.
I just released a rewritten version of an app, and spent many days, running it over, and over, and over again, looking for subtle "pain points." Sadly, some will remain, because SwiftUI is so limited, but I think it came out well.
I do feel that "polishing the fenders" is a big deal. I spent most of my career at a company that would have day-long cage mat- er, meetings, over seemingly insignificant details of user experience.
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Funny enough, my phone upgraded to iOS 26 tonight, and I am like - what is this garbage, who though this is a good idea? And lo and behold, now I know... Immediately went Tinted mode, yet there is transparency where it shouldn't be, text overlays other text, etc...
For me Tinted is ok. Original was indeed very hard to read in places (ie, quick peeks at the notification tray).
I really have to wonder who Gruber’s sources are. His statement “prior to today never heard much about [Steve Lemay]” leads me to think he doesn’t have intimate access to anyone deeply familiar with design decisions, because anyone who’s spent a little bit of time behind closed doors in that space absolutely knows who Lemay is. But then he quotes sources who are supposedly “in a position to know the choices”, which w…
I’m not sure you’re drawing the right conclusion. It’s possible that Gruber’s regular sources know who Lemay is and just never talked about him much.
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This is cope dressed up in the stereotypical Gruber sycophancy. The decision to align iOS and MacOS with the glassy design of VisionOS was a broader corporate strategy that would have required buy-in from more execs than just the "chief design officer". If you accept that this particular bozo wasn't forced out but instead was tempted away by the scent of lucre wafting from Zuck's pockets, then that implies that there…
I am starting to think John Gruber doesn't like Alan Dye.
Funny enough, my phone upgraded to iOS 26 tonight, and I am like - what is this garbage, who though this is a good idea? And lo and behold, now I know... Immediately went Tinted mode, yet there is transparency where it shouldn't be, text overlays other text, etc...
I also went tinted as soon as 26.1 came out. There is a step further, under "accessibility" -> "Reduce Transparency". For me Tinted is ok. Original was indeed very hard to read in places (ie, quick peeks at the notification tray).