Episode Details

Special guest Louie Mantia joins the show to talk about Liquid Glass, the various OS 26 updates, and the worrisome state of Apple’s UI design overall. Also: sandwiches.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

• Louie’s personal website, chock full of downloadable wallpapers, icons, and more.
• Louie, on Alan Dye: “A Responsibility to the Industry”.
• Louie on Mastodon.
• Parakeet, Louie’s design partnership with Luka Grafera.
• Steve Jobs introducing the new icon for iTunes that Louie made (the best iTunes icon ever).
• Daring Fireball: “Sorry, MacOS Tahoe Beta 2 Still Does the Finder Icon Dirty” (with links, at the bottom, to Louie’s mockup of how Liquid Glass versions of the Finder icon should look).
• My polls on light/dark mode preferences on your phone: Mastodon and Threads.
• NeXTStep’s GUI and icons, including the realistic “folders” and super-detailed “home” with shrubbery and a tree in front of the house (and another collection just of NeXTStep’s icons).
• Redweld — Makers of the iconic (no pun intended) expandable files that NeXT’s folder icons were based on.
• The wonderfully skeuomorphic original interfaces for Apple’s iPhone Voice Memos and Podcasts apps.
• Steve Jobs introducing Aqua at Macworld San Francisco in January 2000.
• A July 1986 draft of the original Human Interface Guidelines (PDF) from Apple, including a brief section on “Perceived Stability” (followed by a section on “See-and-Point versus Remember-and-Type”).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.