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• @snazzylabs Quinn Nelson on x

  This is a superb article on a horribly ugly website lol. As a lifelong Mac user, I've been thrown back into the deep end with Tahoe. And I hate it. HIG means nothing anymore and Liquid Glass on the Mac is absolutely wretched.

• @chadmoran Chad Moran on x

  The HIG and Apples design principles were once the pinnacle of what good design is. Now it's the flea market of design. And that's being nice.

• @eva.town Eva on bluesky

  still not upgrading to Tahoe. you can't make me.

• @mackuba.eu Kuba Suder on bluesky

  Man, this is fucking brutal... 😐 #Mac #macOS #Tahoe  —  (it's about the icons in menus, not the app icons)

• @swank.ca Jesse Wilson on bluesky

  I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts

• @tylermw.com Tyler Morgan-Wall on bluesky

  This blog post on the proliferation of icons in macOS Tahoe makes the decision clear: I'm never updating to this cluttered mess.  Where did your aesthetic taste go, Apple?  Yuck.  🤮  —  Left: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines  —  Right: macOS Tahoe  —  Read the post: …

• @joelanman Joe Lanman on bluesky

  nearly all of the graphic design of new MacOS is awful, including these icons (click the snow icon at the top to stop it snowing)  —  tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

• @johnspurlock.com John Spurlock on bluesky

  'On the upside: it's not that hard anymore to design better than Apple!  Let's drink to that'  —  tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

• @jochenwolters@mastodon.social Jochen Wolters on mastodon

  I only now learned that Tonsky also created the #FiraCode programmers' font.  If you develop #code of any kind, do yourself a favor and check it out:  —  https://github.com/...

• @searls@mastodon.social Justin Searls on mastodon

  Glad someone else wrote this.  IDGAF about macOS Tahoe app icons because they're something I see for a split-second when launching apps, but the new contextual menu icons are far more of a nuisance to trying to use apps.  So much visual noise. https://tonsky.me/...

• @stroughtonsmith … Steve Troughton-Smith on mastodon

  If the Mac is really getting touch support over the next year, as rumored, there's very little chance of UI metrics or iconography going back to how it was in earlier releases.  Those are the before-times now, no matter who is in charge of design.  —  It's way more likely to *inh…

• @marcoarment@mastodon.social Marco Arment on mastodon

  “Apple [UI design] took on an impossible task... And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the best they could, given the goal.  But that's not true either: they did a poor job consistently applying the metaphors and designing the icons themselves.”  —…

• @lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social Jeff Johnson on mastodon

  I couldn't read the blog post with the fucking snow.  —  I know there are ways to stop or avoid the snow, but I refuse to do it on principle.  The user-hostile animations in the blog post are much worse than anything in Tahoe, and that's saying a lot, because Tahoe is quite user-…

• @tuomas_h@mastodon.social @tuomas_h@mastodon.social on mastodon

  This is the most in-depth, most spot-on piece I've read about what's wrong with icons in menus in Mac OS Tahoe.  Well worth your time.  —  https://mastodon.online/...

• @RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place Robin-Yann Storm on mastodon

  An exceptional writeup of UX, UI, and icon design: https://tonsky.me/...  A kind of classical look at ‘less is more’ with lots of images to prove the point.

• @davedelong@mastodon.social Dave DeLong on mastodon

  An epic deep dive into all the issues with icons in menus in macOS Tahoe: https://tonsky.me/...

• @marcoarment@mastodon.social Marco Arment on mastodon

  This is a masterpiece.  —  https://mastodon.online/...

• @nikitonsky@mastodon.online Niki Tonsky on mastodon

  New blog post!  A close look at Tahoe menu icons.  With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/...

• @jamesthomson@mastodon.social James Thomson on mastodon

  On Tahoe, why is the image next to the save command in the File menu “square.and.arrow.down”, but the export and share commands are “square.and.arrow.up” and import has the arrow pointing _down_?  —  [image]

• r/MacOS r on reddit

  It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

• r/apple r on reddit

  It's hard to justify Tahoe icons