Mac App Store Design in Tahoe
The attention to detail in Apple’s App Store app is just… not there. I draw your attention to the “Available on” subtitles below each app in the grid — they’re inconsistently truncated, some not even indicating that they are truncated.
The spacing and padding also seems to be “best efforts” (check the device icons).
I want to be kind, but this design and experience feels like a lot of “good enough, ship it”.
The strongest impression I have from everything Apple has done, since the era of introducing Catalyst and SwiftUI, is they are trying to create “design systems” that remove the need for a designer, and remove the need for design tool skills on the part of developers. For example, the sheer number of UIs that seem to just use standard (SF Symbols?) UI icons, where previously they would have rolled their own.
These broken edges are where the designers are already out of the loop.
Previously:
Update (2026-04-08): Christian Beer:
Does Apple care about the Mac App Store at all?! NOPE…
Filtering does not work at all… and this[…]
Previously:
Update (2026-04-10): Nick Heer:
The Mac App Store on my iMac says a whole bunch of apps work properly with it, until you click the disclosure triangle and it says it needs a newer version of MacOS that I can’t upgrade to.
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Ive been have the most annoying MAS issue where its refusing to update certain Mac apps with no reason as to why the download wont start.
Yet you all keep buying Macs and developing software for them. Apple reasonably concludes they are doing things well enough!
