Touch Bar 发布十年后回顾,核心观点是它的失败更多源于软件而非硬件。文章梳理了 Touch Bar 2016 年随 MacBook 推出的背景——箭头键被压缩、MagSafe 消失,整体给人"灵感枯竭"的印象。作者认为,Touch Bar 的问题不在于触摸条本身,而在于 Apple 没有为它构建足够好的软件生态和交互范式。
The Touch Bar arrived in 2016 seemingly already pre-doomed, on a generation of machines that had a “we’ve run out of ideas” smell all around them. The arrow keys were reshaped, the keyboard got a slim...
iPhone’s home button and then the swipe up home gesture are so important and well done that they probably need to be covered as Unsung Heroes, but I wanted to mention something else today as we’re rev...
Some years ago, the inimitable channel Technology Connections posted a 17-minute video about the peculiar design quirk of ceiling and room fans – they usually order their options Off → High → Medium →...
The post about the dark mode toggle reminded me of two similar things rattling in my brain. On the positive side, here’s a delightful interaction from macOS. I can easily maximize the window to take u...
On her blog, Lea Verou makes a case that each user-facing website dark-mode toggle should only ever show two options, but in a smart way. The challenge is that any dark mode toggle needs to actually a...
From Marton Barcza at TechAltar, a good 12-minute video analyzing what went wrong with the famed Live Tiles that Microsoft was pushing throughout most of the 2010s: Now, among Windows Phone fans the p...
A strange thing happens when you press Enter on an empty item in a list in most text editors – the entire list item disappears: This feels counterintuitive. Isn’t Enter for committing and adding more ...
An interesting 20-minute Config talk from the Instagram designer Rose McManus: It covers some of the same areas we recently talked about: diacritics and Polish S (and a fun video about English convent...
Mac 的.dmg 安装流程用一个自定义 Finder 窗口引导用户把应用图标拖进 Applications 文件夹,各软件开发者在这个有限约束里玩出了各种设计花样。文章梳理了箭头方向、文字指令、图标场景、格式塔问题等不同处理方式,并给出作者的个人审美判断——比如 Firefox 多年来保持优雅的安装窗口值得额外肯定。