9 posts tagged ‘Design’
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua
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James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s […]
John Geleynse Retires From Apple
John Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their careers. We rewrote the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines for […]
The Timer in watchOS 10
Craig Hockenberry: The addition of Recents made getting to the 1/3/5/10/15/30 settings more challenging because scrolling with your nose is significantly more difficult. Thankfully, once you positioned the magic grid on the device, going into and out of timers could be done quickly and easily. […] This is exactly why the magic grid in the […]
The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-icing system for longer than five minutes under specific conditions led to overheating and damage to the […]
Google Maps in Late 2023
Tim Hardwick: When users get directions for driving, walking, or cycling, Google Maps now offers a “multidimensional experience” that can be used to preview bike lanes, sidewalks, intersections, and parking along the route, according to Google.A time slider can be used to see air quality information and how the route looks as the weather changes […]
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering images, large bloated text, and excessive negative space result in long pages requiring more scrolling to consume all content. […]
The History of Cover Flow
Andrew Coulter Enright (in 2005): I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the […]
Relative Time Labels
Nikita Prokopov: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here […]