User Interface Design Is More Of A Science Than An Art

Nikita Prokopov’s conclusion to an excellent article criticizing menu bar icons in macOS 26 Tahoe : Is an interface manual from 1992 still relevant today? The principles — as long as they are good principles — still apply, because they are based on how humans work, not how computers work. It makes me sad seeing perfectly good knowledge already accessible 30 years ago being completely ignored or…