Jul 15, 2025
UGH I hate when disc menu designers do this. It is completely unclear which item is selected. And it doesn't help to move, because you don't know which colour is active.
Terrible UI.
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UGH I hate when disc menu designers do this. It is completely unclear which item is selected. And it doesn't help to move, because you don't know which colour is active.
Terrible UI.
The UI Inspiration Factor
After Apple spent the mid-90s slowly circling the drain, the return of Steve Jobs and the popularity of the iMac were starting to reverse the company's fortunes by the end of the decade. Their "Think Different" ad campaign tried to position the Mac as the computer of dreamers and visionaries, and white Mac OS did have more visual "fit and finish" than Windows . . .
. . . it was getting harder to ignore its underpinnings as a single-tasking system from the Bronze Age of personal computing. Apple's inability to create a more modern Mac OS was big reason why the company almost went out of business, and they'd acquired Steve Jobs' NeXT corporation specifically to adapt their super-advanced OS to the Mac.
The earliest developer builds of the new Mac OS, called OS X, basically looked like NeXTStep reskinned to look like Mac OS 9.
It was a very conservative approach that mirrored what Microsoft had done with the Windows NT family: upgrade the tech under the hood, but retain the familiar UI with basically no changes. But by the turn of the millennium, even Microsoft realized that their newest Windows version needed a bold new look to commemorate the consumer release's move to the NT platform:
The plasticky "Fisher Price" look of Windows XP was only a light coat of paint on Windows 2000, though, and it didn't take much digging before you ran into UI elements that were untouched since Windows 3.x. It was even possible to turn off the new UI altogether and make Windows XP look exactly like Windows 2000.
With OS X, Apple went in an entirely different direction:
The new Macintosh UI didn't just wow people, it inspired them. Back then, popular apps were a lot less platform-agnostic than they are today. About the only mainstream application suite that ran on the Mac was Microsoft Office. Adobe had yet to create a version of Photoshop for Mac OS X, almost none of the other popular games and applications from the Windows world had Mac versions, and Apple's one-button mouse interface didn't even have a right-click option. You had to hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click the mouse to bring up a context menu. And yet it's hard to explain to folks who weren't there how much everyone who saw OS X needed to have it.
Much as the iMac looked totally different and more futuristic than everyone else's beige boxes, OS X looked like a user interface that really was from the future. Even though it wouldn't really be mature and feature-complete for a few more years, OS X made you feel like you could sit down and create something amazing with it. That feeling was an impossible thing to quantify, and it was something that Microsoft's creatively-blind culture was totally incapable of understanding or even believing in.
Sadly, by the time I was finally able to make the jump to Mac, the Aqua visual style had given way to the flat UI that was inspired by Jony Ive's iOS 7 design. I still like it better than Windows, but there was something inspiring about those perfectly glassy buttons and scroll bars and those big, hyper-detailed icons that was lost in the move to "modern" flat design. I hope the pendulum swings the other way eventually.
I love all of you but when you are customising your blog themes please remember that the recommended minimum size for a tap target (i.e. and element you click on, like the reblog button) is 44 x 44 pixels and if you make it smaller then you risk your blog being inaccessible to a LOT of people.
Q:
How do I reconfigure the side menu that is currently on the left side of the screen so it doesn't waste so much of my scroll space? It actually makes reading my content harder, not easier.
Design of UI
OMFG I AM SO MAD
I was so close to install an addon to get the date back.....
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I THOUGHT IT WAS A NEW LAYOUT UPDATE SINCE MONTHS (it happened after an update)?!?!?! srsly youtube?!?!? That’s such an interface fail!!! Those elements are supposed to adjust to the screen and not disappear... I hate programming but I know at least that still.
Tumblr... no. Put it back where it was!
Why change a running system? That’s an UI sin...
Our GUI development for Quantum ESPRESSO is progressing further! Check the status video on Youtube!