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

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Post by tomduncalf » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
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Post by zeristor » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

Wait macOS 11, not 10.16.

I assume this is a breaking change then?

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Post by ihuman » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

zeristor wrote: post #2

Wait macOS 11, not 10.16. I assume this is a breaking change then?

I think it's because Big Sur is the first version that supports ARM.

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Post by samename » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

zeristor wrote: post #2

Wait macOS 11, not 10.16. I assume this is a breaking change then?

Technically yes, but Rosetta 2 is supposed to allow most apps to continue working fine until their developers upgrade them.

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Post by bjelkeman-again » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

More transparent, low contrast menus, and not much colour to help you navigate. I must be getting old. What accessibility features do one use to make the UI clearer without becoming butt-ugly to look at?

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Post by paulirwin » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

zeristor wrote: post #2

Wait macOS 11, not 10.16. I assume this is a breaking change then?

macOS in its history has not really followed semantic versioning. 10.6 dropped support for running on PowerPC CPUs, and 10.7 dropped support for running PowerPC apps with Rosetta. 10.15 dropped support for 32-bit apps. Those were pretty significant breaking changes.

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Post by dang » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:39 PM UTC

The previous, and still ongoing, thread about this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23603852. I'm not sure whether to merge the threads or let this one start fresh (another comment about this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605260).

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Post by Synaesthesia » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:39 PM UTC

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #5

More transparent, low contrast menus, and not much colour to help you navigate. I must be getting old. What accessibility features do one use to make the UI clearer without becoming butt-ugly to look at?

I’m sure the usual reduce transparency and increase contrast options will still be there.

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Post by bitL » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

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

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Post by GekkePrutser » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

zeristor wrote: post #2

Wait macOS 11, not 10.16. I assume this is a breaking change then?

This is macOS. Every major and some minor versions are breaking, especially from an enterprise point of view :)