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  1. Dear messaging app interface maintainers,

    Please stop making me click "Read more..." to read just the last 3 words in a message. If it's long enough that it needs a short preview and a "Read more..." button, make the preview shorter so I can scroll past it more easily if I don't actually want to read more.

    Don't make me think "you could have put the rest of the message in the space that "Read more..." takes up".

    #uisucks #hig #papercuts

  2. The inconsistency of Tahoe’s design

    I even collected them all together, so the absurdity of the situation is more obvious.


    It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me

    Oh how the mighty have fallen.

    I recommend reading the whole post. It’s an opus to how Tahoe UX design is an utter denunciation of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines – once considered to be the gospel of how interface design must be done.

    I know it’s beating a dead horse at this point

    I know it’s beating a dead horse at this point. Tahoe is a complete disgrace when it comes to user interface design. I don’t want to conflate this as denouncing Liquid Glass – although I still have issues with it. It’s how Tahoe is the worst implementation of it to the point where Mac OS isn’t what it is supposed to be.

    Anyway, here’s to hoping all the changes with the leadership is all going to bear fruit sometime soon.

    I’ve also realized that I might skip a mac OS version for the first time ever, esp now that I’ve successfully reverted my Mac back to Sequoia.

    #apple #hig #humanInterfaceGuidelines #macOs #userInterface #ux
  3. Apple in their Mac HIG: “…users probably won’t notice if the margins inside your window edges are 18 pixels wide (instead of the typically recommended 20 pixels), but they are likely to notice if the left margin is wider than the right one.”

    Also Apple... left-aligns the Mail Preferences window controls even though they want developers to practice “center equalization."

    #macOS #Macintosh #HIG #HumanInterfaceGuidelines