Great point. Very disappointing to read an critique that tries to appear thoroughly thought through, but not even considers that the company that has been very consistent in UX design choices, might have thought about what they're doing in a system, that probably requires fundamentally different approaches to UX.
I mean:
> Apple is the first major operating system vendor who had abandoned a four-decades-long tradition. Their new visionOS — for the first time in the history of Apple — will have round checkboxes.
And yet the author is too lazy to think about that this might have a reason other than "they're stupid, look at all my screenshots, i know better than them".
Btw: not saying i agree with this decision. But why even take the time to write when not trying to actually think about what you're criticising?
Dad must know better, surely! It's absolutely impossible that almighty Apple is now full of subpar UX wannabes.
Apple design has been on a downright trajectory for a long time now, basically since Ive was promoted to the very top (yes he left now, but the damage was done). The Peter Principle doesn't make exceptions.
If someone spends over an hour writing a blog post than the normal expectation is that they at least spend a few minutes confirming the point based on information, or lack of, in publicly available resources, such as Apple design documents.
Well i wasn't defending apple as if they wouldn't make mistakes or couldn't be led by people who don't know what they're doing. My point had nothing to do with the design choices themselves. But if the point isn't obvious, there is no point to be explained.
Apple & elon musk make people on HN act so weird. Sad.
Totally agree. I'm surprised that a post making a big claim with little research and shallow content like this got to the frontpage with over 800 upvotes. Sad you're being downvoted too.
You get downvoted because you argue that Apple definitely has a great idea behind the change. Why do you think that? And what are they doing about the fact that checkboxes now look like radio buttons? All you're doing is paying homage to Apple without contributing anything meaningful.
> You get downvoted because you argue that Apple definitely has a great idea behind the change. [...] All you're doing is paying homage to Apple without contributing anything meaningful.
Yeah, no. Not at all. But if you still don't get that my comment has absolutely nothing todo with the design choice itself a t a l l , it's truly pointless.
I mean: > Apple is the first major operating system vendor who had abandoned a four-decades-long tradition. Their new visionOS — for the first time in the history of Apple — will have round checkboxes.
And yet the author is too lazy to think about that this might have a reason other than "they're stupid, look at all my screenshots, i know better than them".
Btw: not saying i agree with this decision. But why even take the time to write when not trying to actually think about what you're criticising?
Laughable.