Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoAh thanks, so a slop article that barely belongs in the community here. Got it.
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.
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.
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:
Arctg?
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.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 22 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 21 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 21 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.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I will not read every article.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Let’s just agree to disagree, I personally don’t like to be reliant on external sources when there is no good reason to not post the article directly.