Daring Fireball

Back in July, I was lucky enough to have my friend Louie Mantia on The Talk Show to talk about Liquid Glass and (as I wrote in the show notes) “the worrisome state of Apple’s UI design overall”. This was probably my favorite episode of the show all year...

Tyler Hall, just one week ago:
Maybe it’s because my eyes are getting old or maybe it’s becausethe contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse.Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a borderaround the active window. I named it “Alan”....

That doesn’t look like one of the fancy Mitsubishi traction elevators at Apple Park, but otherwise, this jibes.
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Mark Gurman, with blockbuster news at Bloomberg:
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.’s most prominent designexecutive in a major coup that underscores a push by the socialnetworking giant into AI-equipped consumer devices.
The company is hiring Alan Dye, who has served as the head ofApple’s user interface design team since 2015, according to peoplewith knowledge of the matter. Apple is replacing Dye with longtimedesigner Stephen Lemay, according to the people, who asked...