5 ms·
Which menus generally have color as an element in Mac OS today that don't in the new Mac OS? Serious question—I can't find one.
by avree 6y ago
Which menus generally have color as an element in Mac OS today that don't in the new Mac OS? Serious question—I can't find one.
- justwalt 6y agoLooks like the mail preferences window is one such example, as seen in the before/after in the middle of the page.
- wpm 6y agohttps://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/overview/whats-new-in-macos/ https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... Command/Ctrl + F for: "align different subsets of toolbar items" The pictures above the paragraph that phrase appears in exemplify the problem perfectly. One certainly looks nicer, being all uniform and monochrome, but the other provides visual feedback that is far quicker to parse than text or hieroglyphics. I have to explain to my 70 year old aunt why I won't be updating her Macbook to Big Sur, because she'll never be able to cope with this change. Yeah, she's 70 and not that great at all this, but that's exactly who this interface should be for. We can bitch and moan but we'll deal, because we have to. At 70 years old you just want your fucking email to work and you want to know what buttons to click on. Apple decided to add depth to the glyphs on the Dock, but no where else apparently. I'm so fucking tired of this flat monochrome bullshit.
- fnordsensei 6y agoThe state of accessibility (as a design goal; as, finding the point where it critically improves the situation for some, yet is beneficial for everyone) in tech is generally awful. It's sad that this doesn't look like it's a priority to Apple. My only hope is that I'm wrong, that the affordances are actually more than OK once you use it, and that they've done loads of usage testing and found that it works better for the majority of people, as well as those with greater needs.