> This whole system preferences thing for example
Do you remember what the battery icon in System Preferences looked like in the first beta of Mac OS 12? It's a beta. Give it some time. It's not out yet.
Do you remember what the battery icon in System Preferences looked like in the first beta of Mac OS 12? It's a beta. Give it some time. It's not out yet.
See this: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1534261202167152649
Instead of distinct readable controls with clear interactions it's a sea of gray upon gray upon gray.
It breaks Apple's own HIGs which says not to (over)use switches, and use checkboxes instead. The drop downs no longer look like they can be interacted with.
Where you'd have settings that can easily fit on a single pane in multicolumn view, you now have lists upon lists upon lists that are entirely alien to the Mac OS https://twitter.com/oskargroth/status/1534133558817742848
Interface consistency is a bullshit goal: https://twitter.com/MarioGuzman/status/1534585939971801088
post big-sur, at least dark-theme, the overall ui looks very much like gnome in many ways...
> This design thus makes absolutely zero sense in macOS.
what i find interesting is, that instead of building up ipad apps to match macos level of ui quality/sophistication, they compromise the more functional macos on the altar of ipad.... i find that a bit disappointing personally...