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Ramin Honary @[email protected] · 2026-03-13 · 14:15 UTC

@RonsCompVids I was always a huge fan of the “Snow White” design language, with the Apple IIgs and Apple IIc being the most beautiful of them all. I gave most of those products with that design a “least ugly” rating. Also the original iMac I always thought was quite beautiful.

Apple changed it up a little with their mid-90s design language just prior to the return of Steve Jobs, with what I would deem “mixed results.” The later Quadra 600 series, and the Performa 6000 series, and the Color Classic, were sort-of “Snow White” except more minimalist in the design, which I liked a lot but weren’t as nice without the airflow lines of something like the Macintosh IIsi or SE/30.

The Molar Mac and Twentieth Anniversary Mac were the ugliest. (Also the JLPGA Macs.)

Also, just want to remind everyone that @NanoRaptor frequently does parodies of Apple design, check out this article about some of her creations.

#tech #ProductDesign #RetroComputing #ClassicApple #Macintosh #DesignLanguage

#classicapple #designlanguage #macintosh #productdesign #retrocomputing #tech

Ramin Honary @[email protected] · 2026-03-13 · 14:15 UTC

@RonsCompVids I was always a huge fan of the “Snow White” design language, with the Apple IIgs and Apple IIc being the most beautiful of them all. I gave most of those products with that design a “least ugly” rating. Also the original iMac I always thought was quite beautiful.

Apple changed it up a little with their mid-90s design language just prior to the return of Steve Jobs, with what I would deem “mixed results.” The later Quadra 600 series, and the Performa 6000 series, and the Color Classic, were sort-of “Snow White” except more minimalist in the design, which I liked a lot but weren’t as nice without the airflow lines of something like the Macintosh IIsi or SE/30.

The Molar Mac and Twentieth Anniversary Mac were the ugliest. (Also the JLPGA Macs.)

Also, just want to remind everyone that @NanoRaptor frequently does parodies of Apple design, check out this article about some of her creations.

#tech #ProductDesign #RetroComputing #ClassicApple #Macintosh #DesignLanguage

#classicapple #designlanguage #macintosh #productdesign #retrocomputing #tech

Ramin Honary @[email protected] · 2026-03-13 · 14:15 UTC

@RonsCompVids I was always a huge fan of the “Snow White” design language, with the Apple IIgs and Apple IIc being the most beautiful of them all. I gave most of those products with that design a “least ugly” rating. Also the original iMac I always thought was quite beautiful.

Apple changed it up a little with their mid-90s design language just prior to the return of Steve Jobs, with what I would deem “mixed results.” The later Quadra 600 series, and the Performa 6000 series, and the Color Classic, were sort-of “Snow White” except more minimalist in the design, which I liked a lot but weren’t as nice without the airflow lines of something like the Macintosh IIsi or SE/30.

The Molar Mac and Twentieth Anniversary Mac were the ugliest. (Also the JLPGA Macs.)

Also, just want to remind everyone that @NanoRaptor frequently does parodies of Apple design, check out this article about some of her creations.

#tech #ProductDesign #RetroComputing #ClassicApple #Macintosh #DesignLanguage

#tech #retrocomputing #productdesign #macintosh #designlanguage #classicapple

Ramin Honary @[email protected] · 2026-03-13 · 14:15 UTC

@RonsCompVids I was always a huge fan of the “Snow White” design language, with the Apple IIgs and Apple IIc being the most beautiful of them all. I gave most of those products with that design a “least ugly” rating. Also the original iMac I always thought was quite beautiful.

Apple changed it up a little with their mid-90s design language just prior to the return of Steve Jobs, with what I would deem “mixed results.” The later Quadra 600 series, and the Performa 6000 series, and the Color Classic, were sort-of “Snow White” except more minimalist in the design, which I liked a lot but weren’t as nice without the airflow lines of something like the Macintosh IIsi or SE/30.

The Molar Mac and Twentieth Anniversary Mac were the ugliest. (Also the JLPGA Macs.)

Also, just want to remind everyone that @NanoRaptor frequently does parodies of Apple design, check out this article about some of her creations.

#tech #ProductDesign #RetroComputing #ClassicApple #Macintosh #DesignLanguage

#classicapple #designlanguage #macintosh #productdesign #retrocomputing #tech

itgrrl :donor: @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 23:31 UTC

@vmbrasseur it’s particularly annoying if you use #accessibility features to make the device more useable – I use larger text sizes (old eyes 😩), reduce transparency & reduce motion, on / off labels, & increase contrast to make the UI more tolerable & obvious (to me), & it’s clear that they haven’t done a lot of (any? 🤔) testing of how these features modify or break the new #UI elements / “#DesignLanguage” 😤

I hate seeing accessibility being relegated to an afterthought by most OS & app devs, but it’s particularly galling when it’s one of the richest companies on the planet (they also clearly don’t do a lot of testing / #UAT of how much #LockdownMode breaks things even in their own apps, but that’s a separate rant 😜)

#accessibility #ui #designlanguage #uat #lockdownmode