{"id":23954,"date":"2019-01-15T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23954"},"modified":"2019-01-18T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:57:51","slug":"save-changes-before-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/save-changes-before-quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Changes Before Quitting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Niko Kitsakis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This “Mac-like” feeling was at the core of the classic Mac OS era. It’s what gave the Mac its legendary status and its place in history. And while the first versions of OS X broke with some conventions, things became better as OS X progressed. That is to say, until 10.7 came out and started a trend of questionable design decisions that has been continuing ever since.<\/p>\n

But it’s not only Apple that seems to have forgotten its own roots in making good Human Interfaces<\/em>, the rest of the software industry too seems strangely preoccupied with reinventing the wheel while making it worse with every iteration.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

But unfortunately, these things do not only evolve, sometimes they devolve. Fast forward around 25 years to 2018 and you’ll find this in Adobe Premiere[…] No icon, no verbs and the unsafe option is right in between the safe ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: The Lost Art of Legendary Apple UX<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-01-17): Dave Mark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Mac design language was so powerful, and so widely adopted, that any app that did not follow the rules stood out like a sore thumb. Mac applications were instantly recognizable, and apps from outsiders tended to look ugly, in comparison, as those outsiders did not know the rules to follow.<\/p>\n

Does the modern macOS and iOS app universe still hew to a common standard? Are Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines lost in the incredible complexity of application creation?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2019-01-18): Niko Kitsakis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My english language version of Photoshop tells me in german that it can’t open .psd files because they are in “Adobe Photoshop preference file format”<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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