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by retSava 1966 days ago
What's interesting to me, is that those that shape the platform guidelines (Google/Android, MS/Win, don't have apple so can't say) often are the worst offenders to completely disregard them.

Just as an example, I've turned off auto updates on my phone and inspect each app update individually, but the google apps often just say "bug fixes and performance improvements".

When that's the case, such general guidelines become useless. "If they don't follow them, then why should we?"
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m_eiman 1966 days ago
Apple's HIGs are here: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
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whywhywhywhy 1966 days ago
They don't really mean anything on desktop anymore seen as only a small minority of MacOS apps are built using those frameworks. Everything else is either Electron or custom cross platform UI frameworks like Adobe Suite, Alberton, Cinema4D etc.
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m_eiman 1965 days ago
The HIG is just as applicable if you use Electron, even it might take more work to follow the guidelines if you don't use the system-provided widgets.

That some choose to ignore the HIG and use the same GUI on multiple platforms is a problem, but it's not a problem that any guidelines can solve.

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