Comment by grishka
21 hours ago
Because they absolutely can't have disparate visual styles in their product lines, practicality be damned ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
21 hours ago
Because they absolutely can't have disparate visual styles in their product lines, practicality be damned ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At least it's not GNOME, where they shoehorned an unusable mobile-style interface on the whole thing and they don't even have a mobile version.
To be fair, there is sorta kinda a mobile version: Phosh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosh
And amusingly Ubuntu uses Qt for its phone clone of Gnome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
All 4 users must be really happy.
Allegedly the next gen MBPs will have a touch screen. I think Apple have pushed a touch-enabled macOS UI out a year ahead of the hardware: maybe to iron out issues; maybe 'cos they could... I worry that we're stuck with this shit for a few more years, 'til the touch screen goes the way of the touch bar.
These rumors about touchscreen MacBooks have been going around for at least 10 years. At this point I don't believe any of it. Especially with how they sell keyboards for iPads.
"Consistency".
yeah, but somehow consistency was not a concern when picking icons for menu items. as pointed out by some previous discussions on this matter.
i also hate this "consistency" idea. was working on mobile app for android/ios. and a requirement was for apps to look identical on both platforms. whyyyyy. sure for designer it looks nice, but as a user who uses either ios OR android im used to conventions of particular platform. why throw that all away just to look identical an both platforms.
Consistency is the absolute fucking worst design principle.
I’d tweak it to say that a foolish consistency is the absolute worst design principle. All things being equal, consistency is a good thing, but it sometimes gets prioritized to the point of absurdity and becomes counterproductive.
There are two different things that can be called consistency.
Visual consistency means that your app looks as similar as possible across platforms. Regardless of those platforms' native UI. It's the bad kind.
UX consistency means that your app behaves the same across platforms, but adopts their style and conventions. You actually want this.
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It definitely isn’t. It’s good in many contexts, but zealous adherence to some pithy design principle without consideration is bad engineering and bad design.