If only there was an alternative.
Oh well
Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
CandleTiger@programming.dev 1 day ago“Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah thanks, so a slop article that barely belongs in the community here. Got it.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Come on dude, please use your own brain. The article is not AI slop - it is an informed rant about an UI topic from someone who knows what they are talking about. Please read the fucking article before accusing it of being AI slop - I mean, your whole post is kind slop. Just writing “TL;DR” and then spitting wild accusations after reading a misleading one-sentence summary is sloppy as fuck. You can do better, dude!
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Who’s talking about AI? And there is no article, not even a summary. It’s just a link dump.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 23 hours ago
What are you talking about? Just click on the link and read the article. Like, well, you should do with every link that gets submitted here in this community.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 1 day ago
I mean… it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.
<old man shakes fist at cloud> I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well the guy who came up with this crap design did leave Apple. So maybe if enough people shake their fist at the cloud, something finally happens.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Looking back, I think it was a freak accident that the ARCTG crowd ended up calling the shots originally. Computer design was considered janitorial/secretarial style work by powerful people in the beginning, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that the “get rich quick by taking advantage of others” crowd realized there was a lot of money to be made:
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Arctg?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I initially thought it was slop, and then I looked at who wrote it. This is someone I have a lot of respect for.
Personally, I’ve used every Mac UI from the original Twiggy interface, and prefer the UI of Mac OS 7.6.1 with Greg’s Browser, OtherMenu and DragThing. If I could get a macOS back-end with that user interface on the front end, I feel I could get stuff done faster with less frustration.
There was nothing wrong with the original Xerox PARC or Apple HIG documents; their findings still hold true today.