01-30-2016, 12:07 AM
mattkime wrote:
>>I wonder how many complaints about Apple's recent UI choices have been caused by using uncalibrated displays.
to be fair, UI designers shouldn't be relying on well calibrated displays. thats just a world that doesn't exist for most people.
Agreed. It just seems odd to me that some recent Mac OS UI choices look bad on their own fairly recent hardware, compounding shortcomings of the oddly bad display profile with which some of the previous higher res laptops (such as the 2012 MBPs) shipped. I think many of the UI changes that have caused so many complaints about reduced legibility must have been designed by people working on Retina displays, and not looked at much or at all on other hardware. There are still lots and lots of Mac users who do not have Retina models.
Of course some of the bad interfaces are fashion-driven, like the craze for black interfaces with tiny text. That cannot gonaway fast enough to suit me.
BTW calibrating by eye using what's in sytem preferences is almost certain to yield an inaccurate result.