What happens when you click a tool in an app? This traces both parts of that click or tap through to the app actioning it, in macOS 27.2.
human interface
Devised at PARC in 1970, it was at the heart of the user interface for Apple’s Lisa and Mac. Although much changed in Mac OS X, then with Stage Manager and other additions to macOS, it has survived. Is it now being abandoned?
macOS Tahoe is about to be replaced. After 8 months of improvements to rectify problems in its redesigned interface, what has changed, and is that sufficient to upgrade from Sequoia?
AppKit originated in NeXTSTEP and its menus, windows and views are usually built in its graphical editor. SwiftUI was introduced in 2019 and is built using code structures, but supports less than AppKit. Neither is without its problems.
Why isn’t the progress bar for macOS updates better? Why can’t it estimate the whole time remaining to complete an update?
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]
All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out black.
Appearance modes and the effects of Accessibility settings exhibit different behaviours in Tahoe, compared with Sequoia. Illustrated in a simple app.
Tahoe is overwhelmingly about its human interface. It still has problems in providing reliable contrast between elements and tools in controls and windows contents, and sameness across platforms.
How to stop yourself mistakenly pressing the keyboard shortcut to quit an app (Command-Q) when all you want to do is close a window (Command-W).
