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This is not the real news. The real news is that he is being replaced with Steve Lemay, one of the most OG interaction designers at Apple. Not someone with a

by gyomu 11mo ago

This is not the real news. The real news is that he is being replaced with Steve Lemay, one of the most OG interaction designers at Apple. Not someone with a marketing or packaging design background; someone who sweats over pixels and knows what "discoverability" and "affordance" and "feedback" and all those dirty human factors words mean. https://patents.google.com/?inventor=stephen+lemay https://patents.google.com/?inventor=stephen+lemay

postalcoder 11mo ago
This may be one of the happiest days of my life (scoped to apple things in the past 15 years). I'm legitimately more excited and invigorated by this news than any of their product announcements in the Cook era. The general direction of Apple's design has been the opposite of delight. I hope they right this ship. Their lack of leadership in the design space has trickled down to developers. iOS apps used to be a proud showcase of a company's best work but those days are long gone. One example of Apple's fall from grace in software design was the perceived "design moat" that people thought that liquid glass would impart of apps that adopted it versus apps that didn't. People speculated that developers had to update their apps because those without liquid glass would look terrible in comparison to those with it. In reality, people (a) didn't care or (b) considered liquid glass a regression. The human interface guidelines (HIG) used to mean something. Now it's a manual of hypocrisy. ... Alan Dye is gone! Light the beacons!
- qn9n 11mo ago
  There were some rumours of macOS27 being a `Snow Leopard` style release with a focus on bug fixes and performance. This replacement kind of confirms that at least a little. I think Liquid Glass looks pretty but definitely needs a polish and some improvements to usability, it would be lovely if that's what is in store for us.
whiteboardr 11mo ago
Margaret to the rescue!

by gyomu 11mo ago

postalcoder 11mo ago

This may be one of the happiest days of my life (scoped to apple things in the past 15 years). I'm legitimately more excited and invigorated by this news than any of their product announcements in the Cook era. The general direction of Apple's design has been the opposite of delight. I hope they right this ship. Their lack of leadership in the design space has trickled down to developers. iOS apps used to be a proud showcase of a company's best work but those days are long gone. One example of Apple's fall from grace in software design was the perceived "design moat" that people thought that liquid glass would impart of apps that adopted it versus apps that didn't. People speculated that developers had to update their apps because those without liquid glass would look terrible in comparison to those with it. In reality, people (a) didn't care or (b) considered liquid glass a regression. The human interface guidelines (HIG) used to mean something. Now it's a manual of hypocrisy. ... Alan Dye is gone! Light the beacons!

qn9n 11mo ago
There were some rumours of macOS27 being a `Snow Leopard` style release with a focus on bug fixes and performance. This replacement kind of confirms that at least a little. I think Liquid Glass looks pretty but definitely needs a polish and some improvements to usability, it would be lovely if that's what is in store for us.

whiteboardr 11mo ago

Margaret to the rescue!