@nikitonsky: The hardest controls to find are the invisible ones. None of us are telepaths, you know

Thanks migvidal for the video

#AppleMail #hover #Invisible

@nikitonsky: The only way to tell that the top one is a button and bottom one is just a text label is by reading the text.

Don’t do this

#Jira #Affordance #Button

@nikitonsky: Contrast, Apple, please

Thanks @dentalala for the picture

#AppleMusic #Contrast

@nikitonsky: Share menu on macOS is the stupidest thing ever. The amount of unnecessary mouse travel is crazy. I call it “there and back again”

Thanks Fuchen for reporting this

#macOS #ContextMenu #Share #AirDrop

@nikitonsky: The lengths YouTube will go to convince its users it serves them the highest possible resolution when in fact it’s 360p at best. It straight up lies, twice on this picture

@nikitonsky: Since everybody seems to like minimalism so much, let’s agree on some ground rules

#Label #Button #TextField #TextInput #Checkbox #RadioButton

@nikitonsky: I guess Toronto is too small of a city to be mentioned on #GoogleMaps

@nikitonsky: Let me get this straight. YOU changed the updates. But you want ME to check my internet connection?

Thanks @sobersolar for the picture

#macOS #warning #dialog #updates

@nikitonsky: Pro tip: when you ask about something, name that object.

Here, for example: which folder will be deleted? How am I supposed to make a decision?

#Telegram #Dialog #Confirmation

@nikitonsky: No. Just no

Thanks @sobersolar for the picture

#Toggle #Cookies

@nikitonsky: It might come as a surprise, but people don’t interact with controls they can’t see.

The fact that you don’t show cursor in a text field doesn’t help either.

#macOS #SystemSettings #TextField #Invisible