Post #1311241

2025-06-26 02:26 UTC

perhaps every user interface designer should be made to read the Macintosh User Interface Guidelines

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@alilly@solarpunk.moe 2025-06-26 02:49

Assignment: Read Volume I, Chapter 2 of Inside Macintosh, First Edition ("The Macintosh User Interface Guidelines"). Choose a modern piece of substantial desktop software. Compare the software's user interface design to the guidelines. How does it deviate? Are those deviations for the better or for the worse? Why? Explain your conclusions.

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@kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-06-26 02:37

@alilly@solarpunk.moe Who needs style guides when trillion dollar companies can't even agree on a consistent GUI language for their own products? /s

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@silvermoon82@wandering.shop 2026-04-16 02:51

@alilly@solarpunk.moe Oh, how I miss the days of interface guidelines.

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@oscherler@tooting.ch 2026-04-16 08:14

@alilly@solarpunk.moe Definitely. UI designers don’t even know why a menu is called that anymore. I’m not sure them reading it would be sufficient, though. I think it needs to be applied onto their forehead and hammered in. It’s thick, so it won’t hurt… much.

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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-04-16 10:42

@alilly@solarpunk.moe @rayckeith@techhub.social wondering: what year is that from? Pre-"glass", surely?

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