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  1. M

    Massive RAM Usage in MBP

    I know that this topic (heavy RAM usage in M1 Macs) has already been discussed, but nobody posted any RAM numbers in posts that I saw. I have recently transitioned from a Windows computer, to an M1 MacBook Pro. Activity Monitor is saying that I am using 5.97 Gb/8Gb of RAM with only a few tabs...
  2. macduke

    iPhone X Display Scales Larger

    I was reading through the human interface guidelines for the iPhone X and was interested to find out that it has the same UI point width of the iPhone 7, despite having a wider display. Looking at display resolution and PPI, I was able to determine that the iPhone X has a physical display width...
  3. Dj64Mk7

    GarageBand doesn't follow Apple's HIG

    GarageBand uses "Cancel" and "OK" where it would be much more appropriate to use buttons like "Save", "Undo", and "Delete." I thought this went against Apple's HIG (Using "OK" instead of a more descriptive button name)?
  4. grahamperrin

    GUI/UI/UX/human interface design blunders in applications for Mac OS X

    Mac OS X including OS X and macOS excluding iOS GUI = graphical user interface UX = user experience human interface as in OS X Human Interface Guidelines … The question What design blunders have Mac users experienced recently? For starters An application that requires: Shift-click to...
  5. grahamperrin

    Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for Mac OS X, pre-Yosemite

    The snapshot previously at http://web.archive.org/web/20140815012123/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-SW13 has disappeared from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Please: does...