I would urge developers to also take a look at the early "Inside Macintosh" series, which tried to explain Apple's Human Interface Guidelines to programmers. Ta

I would urge developers to also take a look at the early "Inside Macintosh" series, which tried to explain Apple's Human Interface Guidelines to programmers. Take a particular look at Vol1-Chapter 2 [1] to see how hard Apple worked to explain how to design consistent and usable apps. All of this advice ("avoid modals", "group commands in menus") seems trivial to us now: that's how GUIs have worked for most of our lives. But prior to Mac most apps looked like vim. These ideas had to be designed and then taught, and Apple spent a huge amount of effort on those books. [1] https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/pdf/Inside_Macintosh_Volume_I_1985.pdf https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/pdf/Inside_Macintosh_Volum...