Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation

Re:Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation by gknoy on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:35PM (#27912505)

> macOS ... contains very serious design mistakes

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.

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Re:Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation by makecheck on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:22PM (#27913417)

For notifications, here[1] is a pretty good overview of the problem.

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.

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Re:Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation by logbiscuitswave on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:40PM (#27915073)

> Worse, though, Big Sur hides the (X) until you mouse over the literal bounds of the banner - not even the area where the hidden (X) will appear is initially valid.

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.

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