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This post is very well presented and it highlights how absolutely bizarre the latest update was. The video demonstration was also very well done. I remember a
by lynndotpy 10mo ago
This post is very well presented and it highlights how absolutely bizarre the latest update was. The video demonstration was also very well done.
I remember a few years ago, people complained when Apple merely made the entire operating system uglier. (Something about a gradient on the battery?) A lot of people would talk hyperbolically ("apple KILLED macos!"), and that's indistinguishable to an outsider when an update like this brings other people out of the woodwork to say, "Hey, these changes are genuinely bizarre and absurd, what happened?"
- projektfu 10mo agoI especially liked the part with the hand trying to grab the plate. Perfect imagery.
- 1f60c 10mo agoMe too, made me chuckle :)
- danielecook 10mo agoI laughed at the animation quite hard - it’s the perfect analogy for the issue at hand!
- g947o 10mo agoPun intended?
- isABaby 10mo agoThe graphic actually helped me a lot to understand why you have to touch things to grab them, seeing as I am a 2-day-old baby.
- Wyverald 10mo agoThat was a sensible chuckle indeed... but then it also made me realize that grabbing things IRL _moves_ them, not _resizes_ them. Nothing IRL really resizes. So while it makes a lot of sense to grab inside the object to move it, IMO it actually makes less sense to grab _inside_ the object to resize it. (Imagine the reverse argument -- IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it, but if grabbing the middle of the window resized it, that would also be very bad.) I've been trained to grab the edge to resize windows. So I wouldn't try to reach so far inside the rounded rectangle as OP, although it doesn't invalidate their entire argument.
- TheDong 10mo ago> Nothing IRL really resizes A few things sorta do. If you want to increase the size of saran wrap or aluminum foil, you grab the edge and pull. Same for increasing the size of toilet paper before tearing it off. When you want to stretch your fitted sheet onto your mattress, you grab the corner and pull to stretch it over. When you want to make your pizza dough larger, you toss it above your head in a circle, so I guess that one doesn't really match the macOS gesture, I guess you should be spinning windows to make them bigger. However, when you're doing other baking things, like placing fondant or a pie crust, you do stretch from the edges some.
- Nifty3929 10mo agoYou grab the corner to move the corner, not the window. You grab it and move it (the corner), just like the plate.
- creeble 10mo agoIt's funny. one of the most significant UI axioms I ever learned came from Bill Atkinson: "Always make the 'click zone' a little larger than the visual indication of the affordance." This becomes tricky or impossible for some things like touch-keypads, but for most things it makes the difference between frustrating and magical. Apple seems to have forgotten its own innovations.
- m463 9mo ago> This post is very well presented I suspect you must be very careful, overwhelmingly complete and understandable presenting this kind of stuff. otherwise: - if it isn't, the post might be buried in drama. - or else, the post will be another obscure warning that nobody sees. for me, I noticed after the ios 26 "upgrade" I must continually forget, then repair my bluetooth devices. But I don't have the benefit of a clearly understandable article that calls apple out.