I’d like to see more developers offer app icons that aren’t constrained by Apple’s squircle shape. It makes the dock look worse and more difficult to skim.
➝ Source: tyler.io
I’d like to see more developers offer app icons that aren’t constrained by Apple’s squircle shape. It makes the dock look worse and more difficult to skim.
➝ Source: tyler.io
I’m not linking to this application because of its functionality. I’ve never tried it and am not sure if I actually have a use case for it.
I’m linking to it because the app is absolutely gorgeous. It’s probably the coolest looking app I’ve seen in years. I’d love it if more apps were aiming in this direction with their design.
➝ Source: macrowave.co
Every single example they show looks worse with Liquid Glass than it did with the previous design language. Poor contrast, distracting translucency — it’s a mess. How on earth did Apple, a company that was championed for its design prowess, become a company that would ship something like this?
(Via Lee Peterson.)
➝ Source: developer.apple.com
Nick Heer:
App icons across Apple’s three most popular operating systems share a similar rounded square mask, and it is a downgrade. Simon B. Støvring correctly calls out the “expressive, varied app icons, a case of character over conformity” as a highlight of past versions of MacOS. I miss detailed and artistic app icons plenty. Indulging in realistic textures and thoughtful rendering was not only a differentiator for the Mac; it also conveyed the sense an app was built with a high degree of care.
Perhaps that is largely a product of nostalgia. Change can be uncomfortable, but it could be for good reasons. Stripping icons of their detail might not be bad, just different. But wrapping everything in a uniform shape? That is, dare I say, an objective degradation.
Since MacOS Big Sur debuted the precursor to this format, I have found it harder to differentiate between applications which, as I understand it, is the very function and purpose of an icon. I know this has been a long-running gripe for those of us of a certain age, but it remains true, and a walk through the history of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines indicates the company also understands it to be true.
I absolutely hate the enforcement of rounded rectangle shape for icons in macOS. It makes icons less interesting and my dock harder to scan.
I plan to continue using Replacicon to make sure the icons in my dock aren’t constrained by Apple’s foolish guidelines — and I hope that still works as intended after I eventually upgrade.
➝ Source: pxlnv.com
You install it using Homebrew, point Folderify at an image file using a simple Terminal command, and it spits out a macOS-style folder icon with that image on it.
I can’t believe I didn’t know this existed.
➝ Source: github.com
I’m not too fond of the new app icon, but the app itself looks like a massive upgrade. I look forward to getting my hands on it when I log on to my MacBook Air tomorrow.
➝ Source: blog.thunderbird.net
While I don’t use any hamburger menus here on Initial Charge, I am guilty of this on some of my other projects. I should take some time to get rid of those and move to something better. I like Brad Taunt’s suggestion at the main link — a sitemap in the footer with a jump link in the header.
➝ Source: bt.ht
Eugen Rochko, writing on the Mastodon weblog:
We’re teaming up with the design agency Oak to update our homepage and our brand. We’re leaving the ubiquitous blue that every social app seems to have behind in favour of a vibrant purple. Our logo also gets some subtle shape fixes that makes it look more precise. […]
As for the brand updates, they will be rolled out gradually as we update multiple independent properties–the software itself, the iOS app, the Android app, the homepage, the documentation, this blog… So do not be alarmed if you do not see the purple everywhere at the same time.
I can’t say I’m too fond of the updated color, but I guess I’m more resistant to change than I used to be. It may grow on me. But for now, I’m glad Mastoot allows me to continue using the app’s blue icon and theme.
➝ Source: blog.joinmastodon.org
