Menus are often accompanied by icons to help users understand what each item represents. However, designer and coder Jim Nielsen strongly argues that icons are essentially unnecessary, saying they ...

After 34 years, should we still pay attention to Apple’s Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992? Software engineer and UI designer Nikita Prokopov argues that: the principles—as long as they ...

Yesterday I highlighted macOS Tahoe’s aggressive behavior of putting nonconforming app icons inside an ugly gray box of shame. The change seems to affect the Mac user experience more than it impacts ...

The macOS Tahoe menu bar icons are one of the more universally panned changes in Apple’s redesigned Mac operating system. They clutter the interface, making it hard to find what you’re actually ...