[HN Gopher] Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Ma...
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       Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
        
       Author : ChrisArchitect
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-12-03 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | jenscow wrote:
       | Good news for Apple users
        
         | baggy_trough wrote:
         | He was the worst.... so far.
        
       | smugma wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/VW0Sw
        
       | bangonkeyboard wrote:
       | I want to be optimistic, but Dye was just a symptom. The rot in
       | modern Apple design must run much deeper.
        
       | linguae wrote:
       | My initial thought was that I wanted someone like Bruce
       | Tognazzini or Don Norman to return, but then I looked up their
       | ages; the former is 80 and the latter is in his 90s. They're
       | probably enjoying their retirements.
       | 
       | As a long-time Mac user who has switched back to PCs for personal
       | use but who still uses a work-issued Mac, one of my wishes for
       | the Mac is for Apple to fully embrace the notion of the Mac being
       | a _desktop_ operating system and to be very cautious about
       | adopting iOS design principles. Desktops have different use cases
       | than mobile devices, and the UI /UX for desktops should reflect
       | this.
       | 
       | It's not that we have to return to the 1990s-era Macintosh Human
       | Interface Guidelines; it's almost 2026, and I'm sure there have
       | been plenty of advances in HCI research since the 1990s. However,
       | there's a lot of treasure in the old UI guidelines that needs to
       | be rediscovered by today's software designers. It seems to me
       | that contemporary UI design is a mess across the board, not just
       | with Apple, but in the entire industry, affecting both
       | proprietary and open-source software.
        
         | Apocryphon wrote:
         | Susan Kare?
        
       | cyberlimerence wrote:
       | I wouldn't associate anything Meta does with the word 'design'.
       | Instagram's UI changes every two months for no good reason, and
       | now there's a big, ugly, and completely useless 'Ask Meta AI'
       | button in WhatsApp, right under your thumb. Maybe we'll even get
       | some liquid glass effects next.
        
       | zahirbmirza wrote:
       | It is only fitting that Meta Glass becomes as opaque as iOS 26.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Zuck's shopping spree continues
        
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