Tagged “ui”

big writeup about command palettes in UIs

everything is complex

A beautiful writeup of some of the many issues of touchscreens.

mirror of referenced video

Every major-numbered release of macOS is more annoying than the one before. Each release includes terrible new UI decisions, removes useful features you've come to depend on, and restricts the use of your computer as a general-purpose computer even more. It has probably been steadily down hill since OSX 10.8.

Some incredible options and truly upsetting designs

A counter to the "but I always use cmd R" argument. Stripping away useful UI so things look clean is not a good design approach.

Some complaints about the lack of obvious scrollable areas.

And HN discussion with some more.

The forward march of Apple stripping away UI elements continues. Some quite bad tab-related ideas in there, and an excellent point on tab grouping:

A little experiment: how many browser tabs do you have currently open? Let’s be conservative. Let’s say nine. How many are so tightly related among one another that you can meaningfully group them together? I bet none to very few.

If I am working on something with a bunch of related tabs, I am more likely to have a dedicated browser, or user, or session with those. I don't want to juggle and maintain tab groups to deal with their agressive UI culling.

I wish this was longer. I had left the tab open and unread for ages thinking it was a big commitment but it's a few minutes only. The question of "how do we prevent accidental activation?" is an interesting one.

Paper from 1989(!) looking at different methods people use to find information. There are six main categories, most online search continues to only use one or two