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Stop moving buttons around

2025-06-10 20:52:52.092464+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

As Apple's WWDC keynote this year highlights... uh... a new "design language" that has contrast issues and is gonna result in the Apple users in my life asking me where the fuck the buttons they expected to find have gone, and suddenly it's my problem to figure all that shit out. And all sorts of other features that nobody actually cares about...

A good rundown on the ways that big tech computing has fucked up design: Adrian Roselli: I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did.

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#Comment Re: Stop moving buttons around made: 2025-06-10 22:05:54.3096+02 by: spc476

But Dan, designers and program managers need to justify their existence at Appoogle! Or in other words, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

#Comment Re: Stop moving buttons around made: 2025-06-10 22:05:54.3096+02 by: Dan Lyke

yeah, I guess when the pinnacle of Apple design is the dude who created the 2018 MacBook Pro.... I just had hopes that with Jonny off to OpenAI there'd be some actual fucking improvements.

Meanwhile, I had to reboot my Mac because something was grabbing the text input and I couldn't figure out what it was. I could Cmd-tab to switch apps, but when something had focus I couldn't actually type into it.

And Apple the background drawing on scaled scroll views is getting even worse with each new release...

#Comment Re: Stop moving buttons around made: 2025-06-11 02:47:12.899608+02 by: spc476 [edit history]

But Dan, Apple without Steve Jobs is a rudderless company. Only this time, Apple is now a bank with a hobby in destroying usable computers.

#Comment Re: Stop moving buttons around made: 2025-06-11 02:47:12.899608+02 by: markd

and destroying developer ecosystems

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