Posts Tagged “Design”

Snow Leopard at 15 (10)September 4, 2024
The Mac Is a Power Tool (10)August 12, 2024
Apple Intelligence Privacy Dark Patterns (7)August 5, 2024
Sonos Apologizes for App Redesign (11)July 26, 2024
Books for iPad Gets the Photos Treatment (4)July 25, 2024
Steve Jobs: Objects of Our Life July 24, 2024
System Settings in Sequoia (8)July 19, 2024
CarPlay at WWDC24 (3)July 9, 2024
Epic Games Store Temporarily Allowed (17)July 8, 2024
Epic Games Store Blocked via Notarization (14)July 5, 2024
Deleting Messages Attachments Everywhere (5)July 3, 2024
Figma AI (4)July 2, 2024
Rounded Quick Look Corners (1)June 28, 2024
Dark Mode iOS 18 App Icons and Home Screen Personalization (4)June 13, 2024
Redesigned Photos App in iOS 18 (6)June 13, 2024
Legibility and San Francisco (10)April 18, 2024
Daylight Saving Time UI Design Test (2)April 9, 2024
Apple Sports (1)February 23, 2024
Split View Proactive Peek and Reveal on Edge Hover (9)February 13, 2024
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox (2)January 30, 2024
In Praise of Buttons (17)January 24, 2024
Classical Music and CarPlay (1)January 22, 2024
The Timer in watchOS 10 January 15, 2024
The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (4)January 9, 2024
Google Maps in Late 2023 (3)December 11, 2023
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop (2)November 7, 2023
The History of Cover Flow (5)October 13, 2023
Relative Time Labels (15)October 13, 2023
Hacking NSAlert Button Appearance October 10, 2023
Maps in 2023 (3)September 18, 2023
Forklift 4 (5)September 5, 2023
The macOS App Icon Book (1)September 5, 2023
Notification Center in Sonoma (4)September 5, 2023
iOS 17 Moves “End Call” Button (5)August 18, 2023
The iMac at 25 (1)August 16, 2023
Rethinking Window Management (2)August 2, 2023
Better Medication Tracking (3)July 21, 2023
Laws of UX July 18, 2023
iOS 17 Public Beta July 13, 2023
Elegy for the Native Mac App (4)June 26, 2023
Centering the macOS Ventura Form Layout (4)June 1, 2023
Disabling Quick Look In-Icon Previews (1)May 26, 2023
Designing for Colorblindness April 28, 2023
macOS Cursor Images April 13, 2023
Violation of Undo in Apple Mail (9)April 6, 2023
Rogue Amoeba Historic Screenshot Archive (2)March 6, 2023
Formulas for Optical Adjustments (1)February 13, 2023
macOS Isn’t As Small As You Think (2)February 7, 2023
From iTunes to Everywhere February 7, 2023
Twitter API Down (13)January 13, 2023
Favoring Apple Maps Services (2)January 12, 2023
Layers of UI Inconsistencies in Windows 11 (9)January 3, 2023
Options in macOS Update Notifications (2)December 29, 2022
Apple Watch’s Camera Control (1)December 29, 2022
Safari’s Date Picker Causing Customer Support Issues (1)December 27, 2022
Activating Automatic Backtrack in watchOS 9 December 23, 2022
Command Bars (6)November 16, 2022
Featured Section in TV App (5)November 3, 2022
Ventura’s “Open at Login” vs. “Allow in the Background” (5)October 27, 2022
Charts Guidelines (1)October 14, 2022
The Dynamic Island (8)October 11, 2022
Apple Books in iOS 16 (7)October 7, 2022
iOS Action Discoverability (3)October 7, 2022
Monospaced Digits in SwiftUI (1)September 28, 2022
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max (7)September 7, 2022
Products’ Useful Lifespans Should Be Longer Than Their Batteries (7)August 15, 2022
iOS 16 Battery Icon and Text Out of Sync (4)August 12, 2022
Why the macOS Ventura Share Menu Is Bad (4)August 10, 2022
Instagram Walks Back Feed Design Changes (3)August 3, 2022
Scrubbing Through iOS 16’s Music App (2)July 29, 2022
Ventura Notifies User of New Login Items (8)July 28, 2022
Too Much Transparency in macOS 13 (2)July 25, 2022
System Settings (12)June 8, 2022
How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars April 20, 2022
Wider Alerts on Monterey and Big Sur April 1, 2022
Overcast 2022.2 (6)March 29, 2022
GitHub Launches New Algorithmic Feed March 25, 2022
Christopher Alexander, RIP March 24, 2022
Incentives in Product Design and Development (4)March 23, 2022
Instagram Reintroduces Chronological Feed Option March 23, 2022
“Link in Bio” Is Apparently a Billion-Dollar Business (1)March 17, 2022
Twitter Makes It Harder to Choose Reverse Chronological Timeline (5)March 11, 2022
Playdate SDK March 2, 2022
System Preferences Reimagined (6)February 25, 2022
An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec (7)February 21, 2022
Software Paper Cuts February 1, 2022
A Guide to NSButton Styles, 2022 January 7, 2022
Design Evolution of the Windows Control Panel December 28, 2021
(mac)OStalgia (4)December 23, 2021
Opacity Precision (1)December 14, 2021
Inside Apple’s Design Team (13)December 10, 2021
macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies (1)November 1, 2021
Old Apple Human Interface Guidelines (1)October 15, 2021
Redesigning iOS Alarm and Timer Notifications (7)October 12, 2021
Google Winds Down Material Design for iOS (1)October 11, 2021
Safari 15 for Mac (7)September 29, 2021
21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs September 9, 2021
Additional Banking Information in App Store Connect (5)August 25, 2021
The Story of Playdate August 25, 2021
Safari 15 Changes in Beta 6 (5)August 18, 2021
Twitter’s Chirp Font (2)August 16, 2021
Safari 15 vs. Vivaldi When Matching the Web’s Colors (7)August 6, 2021
Apple Brings Back the Dedicated Store Web Page (4)August 5, 2021
Safari 15 Changes in Beta 4 (3)July 27, 2021
Reddit’s Disrespectful Design July 16, 2021
Safari 15 Changes in Beta 3 (3)July 15, 2021
Safari 15 Announced (30)June 17, 2021
Big Sur’s Sidebar Translucency (4)March 24, 2021
Big Sur’s Gray Menu Keyboard Shortcuts (2)March 24, 2021
Origin of macOS Poof Animation (5)March 2, 2021
Apple Beige March 1, 2021
Unified Office App for iPad (2)February 23, 2021
A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard (14)February 22, 2021
Citibank’s $500 Million UI Lesson February 18, 2021
Displaying the State or the Action (4)January 26, 2021
Big Sur Document Icons Are Illegible January 25, 2021
Sketch Library for Big Sur January 22, 2021
Dismissing Big Sur Notifications (5)December 15, 2020
Sketch’s Big Sur App Icon December 2, 2020
Big Sur Not “Preparing” for Touch Macs (6)November 19, 2020
Big Sur Application Icons (7)November 17, 2020
Big Sur Notifications (5)November 17, 2020
25 Years Ago: BeOS (5)October 30, 2020
More Big Sur UI Refinements (12)October 30, 2020
Big Sur’s Hidden Document Proxy Icon (13)October 5, 2020
A Visual History of System Preferences (7)September 21, 2020
Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards (10)September 15, 2020
Big Sur’s Transparent Menu Bar (14)September 11, 2020
Design and Implement macOS 11 Document Icons September 10, 2020
A Step Back (3)September 10, 2020
Inside Digital Pregnancy Tests (2)September 4, 2020
Visual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur (15)July 6, 2020
Big Sur’s Narrow Alerts (5)July 3, 2020
MKBHD Interviews Craig Federighi (12)June 26, 2020
macOS 11.0 Big Sur Announced (10)June 23, 2020
Temporarily Free Content April 13, 2020
Which Emoji Scissors Close? January 16, 2020
End & Accept, Decline, Hold & Accept (8)January 9, 2020
Vector Icon Speed Runs (2)October 31, 2019
Perfectly Cropped (10)October 22, 2019
Silent Failure (5)October 10, 2019
Decreasing iOS Information Density (6)September 30, 2019
Mail in iOS 13 (1)September 26, 2019
Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipsis Icons (2)August 30, 2019
Downsides of Apple Card Being Titanium August 30, 2019
Storing Your Apple Card Wrong (3)August 22, 2019
Why Spiderweb’s Games “Look Like Crap” (2)August 22, 2019
No Thanks vs. Later (3)August 6, 2019
The Man Who Built The Retweet (1)July 25, 2019
Shape Up July 15, 2019
Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple (10)June 28, 2019
Cheesegraters and Crystals June 27, 2019
Soulver 3 for Mac (3)June 10, 2019
SF Symbols (2)June 10, 2019
Bringing Back Color and Depth (2)June 10, 2019
Wish for a Return of Vibrant Tapdown States (5)May 27, 2019
Playdate (6)May 23, 2019
Mac Toolbar Labels and Accessibility (21)May 22, 2019
WWDC 2019 Preview (4)May 21, 2019
Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones (1)May 15, 2019
TurboTax Dark Patterns and Robots Exclusion (1)May 3, 2019
Origins of the Apple Human Interface (5)April 18, 2019
Apple Books Category Icons April 8, 2019
macOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes April 4, 2019
More Undiscoverable Gestures (5)March 21, 2019
Transparency in macOS 10.14 (5)February 12, 2019
Memories of Facebook Paper (2)February 4, 2019
People Don’t Read Similar Dialogs (9)January 28, 2019
Save Changes Before Quitting? (14)January 15, 2019
Environmentally-Lit User Interface January 8, 2019
The iOS Menu (3)January 8, 2019
The Thumb Zone (1)December 10, 2018
Deep-dive Into the AirPower Charging Animation October 25, 2018
Overcast 5 (2)September 20, 2018
Apple Watch Series 4 September 19, 2018
Aqua Screenshot Library (1)August 23, 2018
Changing the Year When Setting the iOS Date (1)August 21, 2018
Happy 20th Launch Anniversary, iMac August 16, 2018
Redesigning Siri and Adding Multitasking Features to iOS (1)August 10, 2018
What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design? August 6, 2018
Rethinking the macOS Font Picker (3)July 31, 2018
An Entomologist Rates Ant Emojis July 20, 2018
Search at the Bottom (3)July 19, 2018
The App Store Turns 10 (1)July 11, 2018
Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance & Materials (5)July 5, 2018
How Apple Can Fix 3D Touch (4)June 18, 2018
Apple’s Design Language Has Killed Fun in Consumer Electronics (3)June 14, 2018
Tweetbot 3 for Mac (3)May 15, 2018
What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy? (20)May 8, 2018
Examples of Dark Design Patterns April 20, 2018
The Menu Bar (4)April 20, 2018
On Normalizing Rip-Offs (13)April 18, 2018
Mapping Apple’s Vast Universe of Space Gray Shades April 17, 2018
The Inside Story of Reddit’s Redesign (1)April 11, 2018
Quiet By Design: Naomi Campbell Interviews Jony Ive (4)April 5, 2018
Avoiding Apple Pay’s Pestering (2)April 4, 2018
Designing Jank-Free Apps March 16, 2018
Time for a Complete Home App Makeover March 13, 2018
Algorithmic Arrangements at OkCupid February 28, 2018
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface February 28, 2018
How iFixit Became the World’s Best iPhone Teardown Team February 19, 2018
Color Picker Now Rearranges Custom Swatches February 17, 2018
iOS Share vs. Action Icons (1)February 17, 2018
HomePod Can Leave White Rings on Wood Surfaces (2)February 14, 2018
The Experts Have Taken Over (1)February 5, 2018
iOS Top Buttons Under Notifications (5)January 31, 2018
Redesigned Web Versions of App Stores (1)January 22, 2018
Hawaii Missile Alert January 15, 2018
Reverse-Engineering the iPhone X Home Indicator Color January 9, 2018
Using GitUp (3)December 15, 2017
iPhone X Physical Design November 8, 2017
The Camera Button (1)October 23, 2017
Google Pixel 2 (1)October 17, 2017
Evolving the Dropbox Brand (3)October 3, 2017
Apple Design in the Cook Era (13)October 3, 2017
iPhone X Design and the Notch (4)September 21, 2017
Apple and Design Details (1)September 19, 2017
iPhone X (7)September 13, 2017
Is This My Interface or Yours? September 6, 2017
ARKit Human Interface Guidelines (3)September 1, 2017
Reddit Raises $200M, Rewrites Code (1)July 31, 2017
OmniGraffle 3 for iOS July 18, 2017
Scott Forstall Discusses the iPhone’s Creation (5)June 21, 2017
Why Reach Navigation Should Replace the Navbar (1)June 20, 2017
A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps (1)May 31, 2017
Apple Music Redesign May 10, 2017
Switching to an iPhone SE (16)April 17, 2017
Apple Icons and Hardware Avoid Tangency April 12, 2017
Facebook Bots Relearn Early PC Lessons March 13, 2017
Great Alternatives to Hamburger Menus February 16, 2017
The Beautifully Annoying Siri Remote (4)October 29, 2016
Disappointing Interaction Design October 20, 2016
iTunes 12.5 Removes Unreadable Custom Colors (1)September 6, 2016
10 Styles of App Store Screenshots August 23, 2016
Apple User Interface Trends (1)July 28, 2016
Slower by Design (2)July 8, 2016
Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
Input Masks: Violating User Expectations June 29, 2016
Thoughts on the New Official Apple App Icon Template June 27, 2016
iOS 10’s Design Language June 21, 2016
Cornerstone 3 Is Sandboxed (1)June 17, 2016
Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps (7)June 7, 2016
How Typography Can Save Your Life (1)May 19, 2016
You Could Almost Do Anything May 6, 2016
Apple TV 4 After Six Months (4)May 4, 2016
Bots Won’t Replace Apps (1)April 22, 2016
Our Software Must Get Better April 20, 2016
Charlie Rose Interviews Jony Ive March 17, 2016
Apple Music Problems (3)February 7, 2016
Mossberg Discovers the Functional High Ground (8)February 7, 2016
Highway Gothic to Clearview—and Back (1)February 6, 2016
A Conversation With Erik Spiekermann February 6, 2016
The Futility of Pleasing All Users (5)February 2, 2016
The First Spotlight Interface December 17, 2015
iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case (4)December 10, 2015
The Apple Pencil (1)December 3, 2015
An Ode to Kai’s Power Goo November 24, 2015
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (1)November 11, 2015
On Keyboards and Thinness (1)November 11, 2015
Apple on Hamburger Menus (4)November 10, 2015
Apple’s Beautiful Construction Barriers November 10, 2015
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design (3)November 10, 2015
The New Favicon November 8, 2015
Apple TV 4 (5)November 3, 2015
Inside Apple’s Perfectionism Machine (1)October 28, 2015
Tesla’s OS 7 Interface Update (6)October 19, 2015
Customizing Columns in OmniFocus 2.3 October 15, 2015
“What do you think?” (1)October 9, 2015
Tweetbot 4 for iOS and Tweetbot 2.1 for Mac (5)October 7, 2015
Alex King, RIP October 4, 2015
How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps (2)September 19, 2015
Problems With iOS’s Flat Design (2)September 14, 2015
Adrian Frutiger, RIP (2)September 13, 2015
Your App Is Collection of Tiny Details September 12, 2015
Pushing on the Pull Door September 8, 2015
San Francisco’s Rider-Friendly Transit Map September 8, 2015
The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work (1)August 18, 2015
Google and Alphabet August 14, 2015
Web Design: The First 100 Years July 23, 2015
My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team July 21, 2015
Apple Music: General (1)July 12, 2015
Hermann Zapf, RIP (1)June 12, 2015
FogBugz 8.13.104 May 27, 2015
Looping Auto-stop for GPS Apps and Devices May 24, 2015
Optical Adjustment May 23, 2015
Apple Watch User-Experience Appraisal May 19, 2015
Redesigning Overcast’s Apple Watch App May 9, 2015
Ex-Microsoft Designer Explains the Move Away From Metro (1)May 4, 2015
That Finder Thing (12)April 25, 2015
Git Tower’s Yosemite Design April 9, 2015
Car UI (1)April 7, 2015
Truncated Text in Mobile UIs (2)April 3, 2015
Unintended Consequences of Usability Improvements (2)April 2, 2015
A Friction-Free World March 21, 2015
Jony Ive and the Newton MessagePad 110 March 14, 2015
Touch Input During Animations March 12, 2015
Try (7)March 12, 2015
OmniFocus 2.1 (2)March 10, 2015
Overcast Clicker Gestures (1)February 4, 2015
Improved FogBugz Cases Menu (3)January 31, 2015
Windows 10: Re-Crappifying Windows 8 (2)January 31, 2015
iTunes 12.1’s Info Window (1)January 31, 2015
How iOS Has Changed (1)January 23, 2015
Design Comparison of Apple Maps and Google Maps December 10, 2014
iTunes 12 MiniPlayer October 24, 2014
Yosemite Observations (8)October 17, 2014
A Guide to NSButton Styles (1)October 12, 2014
Apple Pay Human Interface Guidelines (2)September 22, 2014
On Vesper and Working Efficiently August 18, 2014
Font Legibility vs. Attractiveness (4)August 17, 2014
Sidebar Translucency in Yosemite (8)July 26, 2014
How To Make Tilt Scrolling That Doesn’t Suck July 26, 2014
Scrollbar History July 22, 2014
Google, Roboto and Design PR July 19, 2014
Design Is How It Works July 11, 2014
The Rationale Behind Standard Paper Sizes Like A4 and A3 July 6, 2014
Inspecting Yosemite’s Icons July 6, 2014
Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying Glass (4)June 6, 2014
Vesper Syncing Interface Design May 30, 2014
OmniFocus 2.0 for Mac (2)May 22, 2014
iOS 7 Squandered a Year of Third-Party Development on Superficial Changes (1)April 29, 2014
Car UI April 27, 2014
Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps April 27, 2014
OmniFocus 2’s Low Information Density (11)April 27, 2014
Tint Color Misuse April 18, 2014
Risks in Creating a New User Interface April 6, 2014
Facebook’s Predicament March 28, 2014
Font Points and the Web February 24, 2014
Design Details: Paper by Facebook (1)February 10, 2014
The Shape of Design December 22, 2013
Reduce Motion in iOS 7.0.3 (2)October 27, 2013
iOS 7’s Design Inspiration October 16, 2013
Lifting the Lid on the iOS 7 UIPicker October 2, 2013
iTunes Radio UI Insanity  September 24, 2013
iOS 7 Layers September 23, 2013
The History of the Trapper Keeper (1)September 20, 2013
Design at the Hospital September 16, 2013
iPhone 5c Case (8)September 11, 2013
Color Mixing (3)September 9, 2013
Yahoo’s New Logo September 5, 2013
The iOS 7 Icon Grid and the Mac mini (5)September 4, 2013
New YouTube Logo August 29, 2013
Redesigning Instapaper on the Web (1)August 29, 2013
Butterick’s Practical Typography August 27, 2013
Hollow Icons (1)August 21, 2013
AMBER Alert Usability August 14, 2013
Using Soulver for Design July 16, 2013
Kit FUI July 9, 2013
iOS 7 Design (1)June 13, 2013
Big Ice Cubes (2)May 29, 2013
Common Misconceptions About Touch May 8, 2013
Wolf’s Mother Tries an iPhone March 18, 2013
Checkboxes That Kill Your Product March 18, 2013
Improving Download Behaviors in Web Browsers March 18, 2013
About App Icons January 24, 2013
The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design January 22, 2013
Google Button Colors January 22, 2013
Should Error Messages Apologize? January 7, 2013
Oliver Reichenstein on Design December 11, 2012
Credit Card Statement Design December 10, 2012
iPhone 5 Size (2)September 29, 2012
iPhone 5 Scratches September 29, 2012
Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock September 23, 2012
EarPods (6)September 20, 2012
The Retina MacBook Pro’s Power Key (1)September 20, 2012
The Skeuomorphism Rift Within Apple September 12, 2012
The Squint UX Test February 8, 2011

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