Would you be willing to elaborate, or link to articles supporting this? I'm sure that they have them, but since I swap between windows and mac daily I might just not be noticing them.
A collection of comments on reformatted alert messages: [2].
Comment on icons, translucency and other quirks: [3].
[1] https://tyler.io/240-invisible-pixels/
[2] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/
[3] https://medium.com/macoclock/why-apple-has-broken-some-basic...
Not to mention posts on Reddit, Twitter, blogs, etc. about lots of these UI quirks.
I so intensely hate this design trend of hiding UI elements until you move the mouse cursor into a “magic” area that makes them appear. I work a lot with tools and websites that do this and it’s simply maddening.
I am not too sure about that decision. I am increasingly thinking those that are stuck or are comfortable with a PC or Mac, are very different group of user to those who use iPad and iPhone. Most of them are only using PC when they are forced to use it such as work.
But then a lot of the UX design expert left when Jony become CDO and had crashes during iOS 7 era. And it is the same that current design chief is from an industrial background, with little to no software ux expertise.
And as far as dumbed-down tools, it really feels like literally no one inside Apple even uses their tools (or they have access to better stuff and don’t care). For instance, “Console” - once the simplest imaginable concept with an implementation that everyone would expect - is now a pointless mess. An app that should have obvious behavior and usability is now just confusing every time I open it, leaving me feeling defeated because I cannot even find what I need. They messed it up and moved on, like many other things.