alt Hacker News> Alan Dye, vice president of human interface design, who is joining Meta as its chief design officer.
I wonder if he is responsible for all those niceties MacOS got for the last 10 or so years. Like the scroll bars in Serious Sam Mental difficulty, or the flat earth flavour icons, you know.
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He absolutely was responsible for all the bad UI introduced over the last 10 years. Nobody said no to them.
> Like the scroll bars in Serious Sam Mental difficulty, or the flat earth flavour icons, you know.
You mean they invisible? Also I had fun playing mental. Finished FE on it ;)
I don't know if it's only because he left, but there are stories about how bad he was in his position for such a long time. If that's true, Apple must be blamed for keeping him there--until he voluntarily left. WTF?
I wonder if the already-bad Horizon OS will get worse now.
He created liquid glass, the much ballyhood but controversial new ios 26 update. Marketed like "magic" but mainly just visual updates that are buggy, drain battery and make things hard to read. Wonder if they'll keep supporting/pushing it.