[bargainbin]

My main gripe is that the visual shenanigans alone were enough of a change, why rearrange the buttons?! In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be.

Genuinely believe Apple’s design team are rudderless or have unintentionally been forced to produce something to justify someone’s career, because this whole thing is disastrous.

[wang_li]

> to produce something to justify someone’s career,

This is the curse of being a UI designer for a long lived product. Once a thing has been created and future work consists of 99% code and 1% UI, your UI designer job has evaporated. And so we see that everything changes every major release of an operating system, so the UI people can justify their pay checks.

[hnlmorg]

I think you have cause and effect the wrong way around.

These changes in design are intended to appeal to our magpie brain of wanting the latest, shiniest, things.

You have to understand the vanity of consumers. If every new product looked the same then a lot of people wouldn’t both buying the latest gizmo because there’s no magpie appeal. So when the market stagnates, you need to redesign the product to convince consumers to throw away a perfectly good, working device.

And it usually works as a sales strategy too.

So designers then get told thy has to come up with something that looks newer and more futuristic than the current designs. Regardless of how much those designers might love or hate those current designs.

They come up with this shit not to justify their jobs but because they’re hired exactly to come up with this shit.

[brantonb]

> In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be.

It’s relatively recent in iOS history that Safari’s address bar is at the bottom. There’s a setting to move it back to the top. This specific example is probably as innocent as a default getting accidentally changed during the development process.

[LoganDark]

> In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be.

Can't you swipe past the end on the tab bar (along the bottom by default) to create a new tab?

[wlesieutre]

Only when you're currently in the rightmost tab, but yes