@nikitonsky: Why tabbar needs labels.

> I honestly have no idea what each of those icons was supposed to mean. And every time I come back to the app, I forget again and have to rediscover what they mean every time.

Thanks Akiva Gordon for the picture.

@nikitonsky: You would think that centered blue text next to a button is also a button? How about text input?

Thanks @alexsubbotin for the video

@nikitonsky: Close means close. Don’t open three windows and ask two questions when user just wants to leave.

Thanks @antoon334 for the video

@nikitonsky: Optical compensations.

Left: Downloads icon (circle) is too small compared to rectangular folders.

Right: corrected. Even though technically it’s bigger, it _feels_ the same size among rectangles.

@nikitonsky: If only there was enough space to display full track name. If only...

Thanks @SomeKirill for the picture

@nikitonsky: Show more is an anti-pattern

Thanks @arsenii_that_b for the picture

@nikitonsky: One of the weird things introduced in Big Sur is “Allow wallpaper tinting in windows”.

It makes all your windows pink if your wallpaper is pink, for example. It would even make sense if window is open on top of background.

The thing that Apple doesn’t realize is that during normal computer use you almost never see a wallpaper. So windows are pink for no apparent reason.

Good news is that you can turn it off in Settings!

BTW, transparent menubar is kind of distracting, too.

@nikitonsky: Congratulations? Thanks for letting me know? Can I work now?

There’s exactly zero useful information communicated here. Also sad that even on a simple technical page there are cookies :(

@nikitonsky: I love how Windows shows you what year it is. In case you, you know, forget

@nikitonsky: Left: Google search page for the query “Dog”

Here’s what’s in it, top to bottom:

- 5 search suggestions
- 5 images
- 1 search result
- 1 search subresult (?)
- A map
- 3 organizations
- 4 more search suggestions
- Oh wow, two more results! We’re on the third screen by now.
- Three videos
- 1 search result with 4 inline images
- 3 Top stories with 3 images
- 2 more results. This is fifth (!!!) screen by now, and we’ve only seen 6 results.
- 6 images
- 2 horizontal related searches
- 8 related searches organized in two columns

That’s 6 search results for 6 screens, interrupted by an impossible amount of distractions, all of which have different design and layout for some reason. Many of “result types” repeat multiple times (e.g. related searches and images”, leading to even more confusion

Right: DuckDuckGo for the same “dog” query.

- Three screens. 10 results. That’s 4 times the information density.
- Distractions (e.g. images) grouped into a small compact block, grouped into 1 place, presenting twice the amount of images.
- All consistently designed.