Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

769 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 307 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post criticizing the UI trend of putting an icon on every menu item, using Google Sheets menus as an example.

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

60 points by soheilpro 13 days ago | 36 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post compiling screenshots of the macOS Dock across versions from Mac OS X 10 to macOS 27, tracing app icon design history.

Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

56 points by alin23 3 years ago | 45 comments

Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

430 points by Curiositry 4 months ago | 124 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.

SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow (2022)(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

55 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 39 comments

I've been loving Claude Code on the web(ben.page)

126 points by speckx 1 year ago | 96 comments

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons(tonsky.me)

2231 points by lylejantzi3rd 9 months ago | 873 comments

Nikita Tonsky's blog post critiquing the menu icons added throughout macOS Tahoe and arguing they are hard to justify from a UI design perspective.

Tailscale's new macOS home(tailscale.com)

542 points by tosh 6 months ago | 289 comments

Tailscale blog post announcing a new macOS app interface that moves out of the menu bar to avoid being hidden by the MacBook notch.

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL(developer.apple.com)

271 points by Audiophilip 8 days ago | 303 comments

Apple Developer Forums thread reporting that macOS 15.8.2 RC breaks NSOpenGLView/NSOpenGLContext setView, leaving OpenGL windows with no drawable and rendering blank.

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design(mastodon.social)

684 points by lateforwork 9 months ago | 260 comments

A social media post showing Apple's Pages app icons in reverse chronological order, joking it resembles a designer's improving portfolio, with replies.

Boring is what we wanted(512pixels.net)

413 points by Amorymeltzer 1 year ago | 239 comments

A 512 Pixels blog post by Stephen Hackett reflecting on five years of Apple Silicon Macs from M1 to M5 and arguing steady, boring iteration is what users wanted.

macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)(saurabhs.org)

515 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 256 comments

A personal page collecting macOS tips and keyboard shortcuts, updated for macOS Sonoma, covering native UI conventions and app tricks.