Via Scott Jenson:

Most importantly, in 99% of cars on the road today, I don’t need to RTFM to turn steer, accelerate, brake, use the turn signals, or turn on the damn defroster. That’s why these things are standardized. There are lots of things I will likely need the manual for but not these basics. The v11 design broke this.

Standardization exists for a reason. When basics become complex (due to clearly baseless modifications), user experience suffers.

This doesn’t appear to be fixed in v12, FYI.

Reddit manages to balance the sensationalism of grocery store tabloids with the pretentiousness of a TED talk.

New states rolling out Apple Wallet supported drivers licenses makes me think there could be an interesting opportunity to have law enforcement register their phones to temporarily accept drivers licenses and insurance when requested during traffic stops. Could make the whole data transfer experience as painless as using a tap-to-pay kiosk.

If Apple is continuing to expand their iCloud services (things like iCloud Relay, Hide My Email, etc.), I’d love to see a native Calendly competitor built into the Calendar app / service.

Feels like a pretty natural fit since all of their other services are about quality of life improvements to using the internet and connecting with people.

So intuitive, you’ll spend more time finding the right button than writing.

Why is it that within the same app the AppleTV Library view is so much worse than the Show view? If I try to browse the episodes by going through the Library view, the UI is ironically worse for browsing through all the episodes. Meanwhile, if you go from the Search view or happen to see a card for the show from the Home page, it has season categories, additional info, etc.

???

Design limbo
noun

1. The time between meetings when you can’t get any design work done.

If Apple doesn’t create an ad campaign out of today’s mess I will be displeased.

https://thetinypod.com/

I would actually love something like this as a new iPhone mini.

Vaguely related— where is the Apple Watch Mini? It seems like they’ve explored expanding the capabilities of the watch form factor with the Ultra, but it would be interesting to see how a minimalistic fitness tracker only experience would resonate with customers.

Smart rings seem like the closest example that comes to mind, but it seems like you are limited by the data you can capture from that region of the body relative to the whole. Maybe some kind of minimal glove?

The dating app premium model (think HingeX, Tinder Gold, etc) is so lazy— it’s just about not hamstringing the experience by removing the profiles you would be actually interested in / removing the like restrictions to maintain daily/weekly/monthly usage numbers

Seems like the best thing they could offer would be a way to connect you with a dating coach who reviews your profile, helps you work on your conversation skills, etc. You could even flag that to potential dates so they know that this user is taking it more seriously.