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> texture in the window titlebars, I assume to give them physical-like presence and to encourage grabbing them. That's called a visual affordance. Once upon a
by RossBencina 2y ago
> texture in the window titlebars, I assume to give them physical-like presence and to encourage grabbing them.
That's called a visual affordance. Once upon a time it was canon that interactive UI items had visual affordance -- you could tell that you could interact with them at a glance, just by looking at them.
- frereubu 2y agoIn MacOS There's an accessibility setting in System Settings > Accessibility > Display called "Differentiate without colour" that adds some extra affordances like on and off icons in the switches. I forget what else, but I always have it on because it makes things even more obvious in a way that it feels like OS programmers used to take more seriously in an era before the flat design idiocy.
- wat10000 2y agoThere’s another option for high contrast that makes things look more like old Macs. I think it looks better, regardless of accessibility considerations.