<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&amp;#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.&lt;p&gt;However, UX &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; their weakness.  I don&amp;#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&amp;#x27;s strength.  Have you used their window manager?  Have you used their workspace implementation?  Clearly they haven&amp;#x27;t used it themselves.  Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.&lt;p&gt;Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application.  Why?&lt;p&gt;Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements.  On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.&lt;p&gt;They neglect power-users.  They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&amp;#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.&lt;p&gt;I hope there&amp;#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&amp;#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &amp;#x27;operations-focused&amp;#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&amp;#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&amp;#x27;s future too.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steveblank.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steveblank.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>&amp;gt; They neglect power-users.&lt;p&gt;The way i see it is Apple provides simple defaults which work best for most&amp;#x2F;avarage users.&lt;p&gt;If you want something different&amp;#x2F;extra vs the default, you can customize some stuff within SystemPreferences (like keyboard shortcuts) or install a third party app (like BetterTouchTool, Contexts, Moom, Magnet, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Personally, i much prefer my Macbook&amp;#x27;s UX over my Windows10 UX.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&amp;#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.&lt;p&gt;However, UX &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; their weakness.  I don&amp;#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&amp;#x27;s strength.  Have you used their window manager?  Have you used their workspace implementation?  Clearly they haven&amp;#x27;t used it themselves.  Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.&lt;p&gt;Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application.  Why?&lt;p&gt;Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements.  On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.&lt;p&gt;They neglect power-users.  They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&amp;#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.&lt;p&gt;I hope there&amp;#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&amp;#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &amp;#x27;operations-focused&amp;#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&amp;#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&amp;#x27;s future too.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steveblank.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steveblank.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I like how Window management works in macOS more than the other platforms! The touchpad gestures are great. Or, if you&amp;#x27;re using a mouse with extra buttons, one of the side buttons can get mapped to Mission Control, which works wonderfully!&lt;p&gt;I did prefer App Exposé in Snow Leopard, but ah well...</text></comment>