Alex
@chromaticnova
I’m a web developer, designer, photographer, movie fanatic, music lover, snow sports addict and general tech enthusiast. Based in Bath, UK
Damn, we haven't even made it out of beta yet and Apple already replaced the cool new Siri icon with a grey blob 😢
Sucks?! This is a massive upgrade! It finally looks like it's supposed to again, with friendly playful curves. The 26 icon always felt like quite the abomination, but those added curves bring all the character back again.
I'm sorry but car design has just absolutely fallen off a cliff in the 2020's
Finally updated my phone and watch to 26. I’m weirdly happy to see that my favourite worst UI is still going strong after all these years 😆
Umm WTF were you before then, and what was my account, if not a "bank" account??!!
These electric scooters in my city are a lot like gen AI: A scourge on society, and everyone who uses them is an asshole, a menace, and a moron …until I want to use them, and then of course they’re brilliant and great and super useful and one of the best inventions in years 😂
Multiple people at Adobe really went "yep, that Lightroom icon looks good, no issues there - ship it!"
Every week for about 3 years now Slack has been sending me summary emails stating that my monday-to-friday company sends all our messages tuesday-saturday 🙃 I've reported this to them multiple times, but nobody there seems to care.
Recently re-acquired an old silver iPhone X and man, that thing was the best iPhone design by miles. The look, the size, the weight, the feel… perfection. Nothing before or after comes close!
I see Next.js is still throwing up completely nonsensical errors as and when it feels like it, with zero relation to anything in my code 🙃
Kinda wild that @vercel.com doesn't have a UI to quickly see which of your projects are gonna be affected by their service deprecations 🤯 the instructions aren't even complete 🤦♂️
Watching Andor and it’s great, but the prominent use of this iconic building in Spain takes me out of it every time 😂
The new search bar in Firefox is super useful, kinda hope every browser copies this ASAP 😅
I’m probably just weird, but floating panels like this stress me out. It was the same when Figma tried it too. I think my brain just goes “there’s stuff on top of each other instead of neatly side-by-side, and I literally cannot see everything all at once, HELP” #macOS26 #LiquidGlass
iOS apps were so much better when they all had customisable tab bars. There are SO MANY apps where I wish I could do this today!
Bluesky does this too. So do most platforms. Gmail, iCloud Mail, and probably any other unencrypted messaging platform that you can name.
That’s a great list, many of my favourites! A game I recently loved is Days Gone - I think it got a bit dismissed when it was released, but has grown a large fan base in the years since!