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the latest macOS Golden Gate beta 6 brings back the Aqua vibe 😌

To all senior management: don't get obsessed with shipping feature by feature that nobody asked for, merely for the sake of temporarily boosting business stats and metrics in the name of "user experience enhancement" which is actually pretty shameless.

Siri's level of incompetency never ceases to amaze me

all just lies

the corner radius inconsistency that I cannot un-see 🫣

Not sure if this is new in iOS 27 but damn the transition animation is damn smooth and delightful 😌

“A real point of view has to be able to be wrong. … If you can’t fail it, it isn’t you; it’s just consensus wearing your name.” —André Anjos at #config2026

My theory is that Liquid Glass & Icon Composer started as a design tool solely for the Photos app icon, and people liked messing with it so much they were like screw the consequences let's just built the entire OS design language on top of this

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small details in iOS 27 preview app... as usual Apple's attention to details at unusual spots

Does design system make people depressed? Das design system make people depressed. Das Design-System macht Menschen depress.

Apple's AI pitch is simple and very Apple: it doesn't matter that it's late, and limited, because it's more private than any other option on the market

Jeff Bezos believes AI is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in cheaper food and housing. Internally, Amazon employees mock the company’s AI tools, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI.

(big sigh)

The Siri AI orb design is pretty damn cool. #wwdc26

Reminds me of a diagram from one of my favourite academic papers of all time

From a design perspective this is definitely psychological manipulation and dark dark pattern here 😮‍💨

New post 📝

AirPods Max with Dolby Assmos.

Would do anything for the furry kid! 🐈

Finally finished the book Project Hail Mary and caught the movie before it’s gone from cinema… well comparing to the book, there’s still a lot of details omitted out in the movie so yeah, despite a good movie, I still recommend to read the book :))

Been saved this speech in my iPod Classic for many years and whenever I’m struggling with seeing the vision of myself in the future, or starting to losing my direction in life, I’d listen to it for a few times, word by word.

iPod Brochure (2001)

Excerpt from Articulating Design Decisions by T. Greever, annotation by myself.

suck my entire fucking dick

Dell corporate laptop is so amazingly useless: took 5 min to start up, had a 15-min meeting, left for hibernating and after 3 hours the battery was completely dead. This is a serious joke in power management.

God damn it I just want a normal search

No, I do not want to "have a chat" with my spreadsheet. Fuck.

📝New post: What Makes Us Humane? blog.imwiththou.com/posts/202650...

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thinkin about the wooden ball in avocados

Genius

It’s year 2026 and I still frequently hear stakeholders telling designers to “make it pop”

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Every word resonates with me so much from the past few weeks, feels like a bottomless pit that I’m perpetually falling into and there’s no other way out at the moment except either continuing suffering or quitting for good😮‍💨

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

an interesting read about dynamic interface

Social media is for picking up vibes, not information ft.trib.al/q4lu0lP | opinion

Great products often hinge on a core moment that delights or surprises, not a thousand mediocre features.