Comment by halapro

6 months ago

I think you're in the wrong ecosystem if you don't like animations. Over the top animations have been at the core of Apple, I still remember the "drop in the water" animation of OS X Tiger's Dashboard. 20 years ago.

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dzink  6 months ago

I use their accessibility features to stop all animations I can. Maybe if more people upvote here they will hear us. No point in suffering in silence.

  • lynndotpy  6 months ago

    I agree with this entirely:

    > no latency from brain to action is the greatest design you can possibly have. We want to feel one with the machine.

    But... I used Windows growing up before switching to Linux, and I've been using a Macbook in recent years. Both Windows and Linux can be configured to run with no animation lag, but AFAIK this is just not possible in MacOS. I can't imagine doing anything serious on MacOS with animation log completely interrupting my train of thought or flow state.

    I'm no Windows fan, but at least circa 2019, I know Windows 10 could be configured to be similarly snappy and free of laggy animations.

    The greatest sin in MacOS is the immense lag when switching desktops ("Spaces"). It's a baffling design decision, I can't believe it's intentional.

    • freetonik  6 months ago

      The speed of the desktop switching animation also depends on the refresh rate of the monitor, by the way. Baffling.

    • Citizen_Lame  6 months ago

      Same applies to iPhones. Lag (animation) between action and result drives me crazy. Accessibility settings don't help much.

      At least Android still allows you to set animation scale, for now.

dijit  6 months ago

I think you're overselling it, the minimise? Sure.

But I can't think of a single animation that added a delay to processing on MacOS.

Compare to say, Windows, at least.

  • dzink  6 months ago

    Try Liquid Glass on iphone. Absolutely horrible if you don’t turn off all the motion.

    • bryzaguy  6 months ago

      I was really nervous about the update to Liquid Glass based on comments like this but my experience has been really positive. I love the new contextual tooltip menu when I try to select text and other thoughtful details. Maybe there’s things I’m not bumping into?

    • bee_rider  6 months ago

      The changes of Liquid Glass are the what everyone is complaining about, right? Previously they were OK at designing UI.

    • Oreb  6 months ago

      I honestly don’t understand why Liquid Glass provokes so strong reactions. To me it’s not that radically different from the old design. I don’t love it, and I don’t hate it. There is nothing new that in any way impacts how I use or experience my iPhone, my iPad or my Mac. My reaction to Liquid Glass was pretty much a neutral “looks a little bit different, I guess” before forgetting about it.

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  • lynndotpy  6 months ago

    Switching desktops on MacOS is a >1 second long animation that blocks input which can't be disabled. It can only be replaced with a fade in/out which is just as long.