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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/117134800256945074 There is something cool about beige-era computers coming in extravagant shapes that I can’t quite put my finger on. How was beige the one thing everyone clinged so hard to?

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  New phone battery, who dis? 😁 I put my money where my mouth is, and gave the iPhone 13 mini a boost at the Apple Store. Maybe waiting for a new small phone will never pay off again, but at least this one is good for years to come.

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  We went to China a couple of weeks back for work, and on one of our off days we went to this crazy, five-storey electronics mall in Beijing, full of little booths selling all kinds of stuff. Almost anything you can imagine. One of them had some iPhone 17 Pro-looking Android phones… except they were *tiny*. Think half the size of the iPhone 13 mini. I have no use for one and it probably would’ve had all kinds of shady software on it, but I kind of regret not buying one. It was cute af.

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/117156531879539227 I did not see "the UI gets bigger with each redesign" on the list.

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/117179645115443891 I guess this just goes into the pile of reasons why I haven’t upgraded to iOS 26 and even 27 I’m questioning. What an incredibly sloppy, user-hostile design.

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  🎂 34 revolutions around the sun completed! 🎂 I don’t really care about celebrating my birthday, but I do care about cake so I play along.

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  Even though the styling of iOS 27 is much improved in places over iOS 26, using it alongside an iOS 18 phone I’m still not convinced that the new design actually solves any problems at all. I regularly get the feeling of my screen looking so messy, because there is just no visual structure when UI looks like it is randomly floating in a sea of content/other UI. Apple can refine the styling all they want, but I don’t think *this* is fixable. Proper toolbars and tab bars need to come back.

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  Copenhagen metro has added new stations, it seems. 172.22.2.70 sounds like an interesting place.

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  I look at old software and I see: diverse, creative, crafted, often joyful designs, that were also incredibly functional. It felt like there truly was a permission to explore, to play. I look at current software and I overwhelmingly see: homogenous, bland, rushed, often sad designs. Even the functionality does not nearly always redeem them, as it's being abstracted and hidden away in the name of minimalism. What the systems and tools allow is narrowing down all the time. Just take me back.

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  Setting up a new work phone (it’s an iPhone Air), and iOS 26 just keeps on giving. How do I know nobody at Apple has tested the “top” tab bar in Safari with Reduce Transparency turned on? Because it looks like this…

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  A good thing about living in a country that generally doesn’t do that well in ice hockey is that seemingly no one talks about it.

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  Now that I’ve had the iPhone Air in my hands for a couple of days, hardware-wise it’s a very cool device. The size/thinness/weight ratio feels surreal. I chose it as a work phone because while none of Apple’s current devices are a good fit for me, might as well get something that’s a bit special. The 13 mini will remain my personal, primary device and I prefer it by a large margin. It’s kind of funny how the mini almost fits in the flat area underneath the “iconic plateau” of the Air.

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  I’ve been using Ecosia as the search engine on all my devices for a bit. It’s one of the few alternative search engines Apple list in Safari, and it’s surprisingly decent. I will be continuing this experiment.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/116550659117650451 "Last year’s operating systems didn’t necessarily suffer from design problems, I’m told, but rather a not-completely-baked implementation from Apple’s software engineering team." Anyone who has an eye for good design and has used Tahoe can see that it absolutely suffers from "design problems". Take the humongous window corner radius as a simple example: no amount of "baking" it is g...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116524005654438067 "What’s new today is people holding up objectively bad interaction design and proclaiming it to be good, and the product of teams that purportedly prioritize “design”, when it’s clear they have no idea what they’re talking about." These folks are confusing "trendy" design with "good" design. We did have long periods of time where you could reasonably draw equals between the two,...

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116516862045873797 The only thing Liquid Glass should inspire is to *not* design anything inspired by it.

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  Cherry blossom was so beautiful in Copenhagen this year, as usual. Seeing the sun bring out the soft pink hues is just magic. One of the best spots for hanami around here is at Bispebjerg cemetery.

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  Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis. It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

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  Cléo wanted to discuss the piece of cake I just put on my plate.

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  Mockup time! What could be a reasonable "middle ground" between the Mac OS design that we have today and the radical Liquid Glass design we saw this week from #WWDC25? Disclaimer: this does not attempt to solve all the issues of modern Mac OS design, such as cramped toolbars caused by full-height sidebars and combining the toolbar with the title bar. I feel like the Apple of today is too far gone to do anything about those. Read on to see what I actually tried to address.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/116444144933272997 For a company that loves to repeat “only Apple can do xyz”, they sure are saying a lot along the lines of “look we’re just like everyone else” when it comes to “AI”.

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  Many things in Apple’s new UI design language get bigger when you interact with them, and I just find it so odd. It’s relatively harmless (though annoying) with things like sidebars, but there are some elements where this actively interferes with what you’re trying to do. As an example, in the Music app, the your current position in the seek bar is different when mouse button is up vs. when it’s down. The player bar in Music is in general one of the grossest UI I’ve seen on the Mac recently.

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  Dark mode in Music on iPadOS 26.4. What are we even doing here? Especially notice the supremely legible text and buttons at the top and bottom of the sidebar.

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  @atpfm On the latest episode, Marco speculated that the reason why Suunto’s app is better than Garmin’s could be due to Suunto being a younger company. I don’t have insight into why the apps for each are the way they are, but Suunto is in fact more than 50 years older than Garmin, founded in Finland in 1936, whereas Garmin was founded in 1989.

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  We’re at Mac OS 26.4 and seems like the accessibility toggles should be way more considered than they are. Here’s a comparison between “Reduce transparency” off and on. How does it make sense that turning this setting *on* actually *reduces* contrast between the background and the UI elements? Buttons and sidebars get this grey cast, which makes them almost blend in with the drop shadows.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/116392831060500993 It was either around this time or very soon after that people were saying iTunes was a bloated, confusing mess. Even so, its UI was still so much clearer than what the Music app has today. It’s not even close.

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  Tahoe just keeps on giving… somehow Finder has forgotten how to animate a circular progress indicator for inline audio previews.

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  @apzpins We love to see it.

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  I've been thinking about the cabinet for #smallPinball project lately. If I build a 1:2-scale thing that tries to mimic a traditional pinball machine, it's bound to appear toy-like, which I'm trying to avoid. The solution could be to "change the meaning" of the cabinet. What if I build it as a nice sofa table? It immediately escapes comparison to most pinball machines, and it's a convenient object in the home that also gives the game itself a re...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116284420045260547 It increasingly feels like a future we briefly had but was then taken away.