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Virtually all of these changes reduce contrast and differentiation between controls while simultaneously decreasing information density. All bad news for people who work on their computers for a living.

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I like borders on my buttons to know what is a button and what isn't, this feels.. backwards...

So much has to be inferred from the way things used to be, makes it harder to argue that it's the "simpler" operating system designed for Humans with a keen eye on UX design..

FWIW I also think the flat UI on iPhone (which has been prevelant for >6y now) is a horror show.

Steve Jobs famously once said (while working at NeXt): "There are two kinds of people at Apple: Those that want to push computing forward, and those that want to be the Sony of computers.. and the Sony guys are winning"

How on earth is moving to a the ARM architecture not pushing computing forward?

macOS moving to ARM is the biggest leap for developers in recent years - Amazon are also developing their own ARM chips and cloud services running linux ARM is the future.

Having a mac with a unix-like terminal environment & support to run linux arm natively when devloping for those services is a huge deal.

This is not the ARM thread, This is the UI thread. Nothing about the UI is predicated on ARM.

First of all, this off topic. Next, it's simply wrong, there is no ARM processor better than the best x86 processor in any category except insanely low power. All comparisons I've seen so far compare tiny mobile processors with huge server processes with orders of magnitude more I/O per watt. When you compare phone chips with Zen 2 low-power laptop chips and take into account the massive I/O disparity it's much less favourable.

I remember the transition from iOS 6 to 7. It definitely initially looked modern but I still sometimes have difficulty distinguishing between a label and a button.

Another common issue is the lack of scroll bars or other UI hints like shadows means it's often impossible to know when/if you can scroll.

Though Apple isn’t relenting on this front in the default experience, you can change the appearance in Accessibility options (look for Button Shape). That could help keep these distinct and easier to recognize.

I thought the “white everything” UI approach of metro apps under Windows 10 was bad enough but this is even worse with all the bluriness and similar colours. I am going to have to get another job soon else I’m going to go blind with all these “improvements”. I’m not joking.

i've had "increase contrast" (and implicitly "reduce transparency") enabled since whenever I started using macOS. I really hope those accessibility options work well to reduce whatever changes they're trying to bring about.

on the same note; the"decreasing information density" I don't think would be a problem if you're switching between the "terminal/IDE/browser/excel". the "table views" still seem fairly "compact" so..? /shrug

They can simply get rid of the close/minimize/maximize buttons at this point. I wonder just how many people actually ever use them.

At this point they’re just about the only thing that tells you whether a window is in the foreground or not.

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