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Re:Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design by mortenjorck on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:59PM (#11000583)
The title is a bit off - this isn't so much a blog of Mac app design as a blog of speculative Mac app UI concepts.

Some of them are quite nice in purely visual terms, but they tend to lack any rigorous UX thought. The Slack one is a perfect example: Yes, putting the channels, direct messages, and private groups into their own tabs looks neater, but now I would have to click twice instead of once each time I switched between the two channels I use most often.

Re:Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design by jrcii on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:08AM (#11000607)
> they tend to lack any rigorous UX thought. The Slack one is a perfect example

The background transparency is nice looking as long as you're not actively using your computer for anything and don't have any windows open.

Re:Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design by cballard on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:21AM (#11000648)
Yes, and few of them are particularly Cocoa-y (HIG-y?). They wouldn't fit in with other OS X application windows.
Re:Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design by BrendonTO on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:06AM (#11000605)
Fair enough, I'm planning on adding in more released apps versus concepts, but wanted to have some variety initially.