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It can be good to reduce chrome and focus on content, and have minimal UI's but there's a limit. Your UI still has to be discoverable, and intuitive. With every
by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
It can be good to reduce chrome and focus on content, and have minimal UI's but there's a limit. Your UI still has to be discoverable, and intuitive. With everything hidden away it's unfriendly, particularly for new users.
- oneeyedpigeon 7mo agoSure, but why can't we have both? Sensible, usable defaults for new users, configurable views for everyone else. I'd like a version of Pages where I can turn off the toolbar, turn off the title bar, fullscreen the remaining window and focus purely on the document. That really shouldn't be difficult.
- Synaesthesia 7mo agoAbsolutely. It's totally doable. But Apple is swinging a bit too far into the minimal aesthetic right now.
- carlosjobim 7mo agoIt would be extremely easy to have both. Tab to hide/show chrome and controls. The Affinity software does this, and it's intuitive and works flawlessly.
- derefr 7mo agoI presume the difficult question there, would be what you would expect users to do to engage with that mechanism on iOS (since many Apple first-party apps, e.g. Notes, are now designed once to run on macOS + iPadOS + iOS as essentially a single [responsive] UI.)
- oneeyedpigeon 7mo agoI'd say, if it doesn't make sense to have the equivalent feature on iOS, just leave it out.
- PKop 7mo agoI don't understand how decreasing the contrast between content and chrome helps you "focus" on content. The older design screenshot has better content clarity than the current design.