The menu icons in macOS 26 Tahoe were roundly criticized for being both ugly and making Macs harder to use. A software engineer pointed out that Apple warned against this very mistake in guidelines ...
macOS 27 Golden Gate strips out the cluttered menu icons Tahoe introduced, and Apple updated its own design rules to prevent ...
A Great Reminder To All Technology Designers, From Apple In 1985 Perhaps the key to all design is to always remember that humans need to be kind to other humans.