Setting up a standard cast, how to deal with windows that open in the wrong app group, and building a group for a special workflow.
human interface
Getting started with Stage Manager, without confusion or tears. How to disable its motion effects, and how to build app and window groups for your workflows.
Why Stage Manager can’t be ‘intuitive’, but needs to tackle forests of windows and excessive distractions in novel ways.
The most controversial of all changes in Ventura is the move to System Settings. Although this does achieve important objective, there’s still a long and painful journey to get it right.
Stage Manager on its own is sufficient reason to want to upgrade to Ventura. Here’s why you need to try it out.
Is your Dock busy? How well are you able to distinguish Apple’s new app icons cast rigorously into rounded rectangles? I’m still failing, and open FaceTime when I want Messages.
When I went to change the settings of the menu bar clock, they had vanished. Finding them revealed significant changes coming in macOS 11.
A firsthand account of how the Mac human interface was developed 40 years ago for the Lisa, and resources for learning to code for macOS.
How to get the best out of a Combo box, and all about Pop-up Buttons, Text Fields, Date Pickers and more.
It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.
The Eclectic Light Company 