Apple changes everything: New UI, and new UX interactions

Apple has been lately become less boring but not less annoying. For the wrong reasons, they not only decided to update the UI, the “look & feel” of the OS, but they also decided to change the way things work, and honestly I hate it.

On top of the visual updates, AKA liquid ass, they added NEW interactions like the expanding-search feature. I was ok with the search input field at the bottom in Safari, I think it is ergonomic and easy to reach, but now that they updated other apps like Music, App Store, and everywhere else, it’s just too much of things not working as expected.

**ACROSS ALL APPS** SEARCH Search is crap. If you tap the search icon, it doesn’t activate, it just changes to a search field, you need to tap it *again* to activate it.

BUTTONS Buttons changing size and shape. Why? Why do the buttons need to move from where they were?

SAFARI I swear to God they moved some of the elements a couple pixels in the Safari input field, as I find myself accidentally tapping the microphone button a couple times a day.

APPLE MUSIC If you use the Music app, don’t tap the Checkmark, or it will delete your albums. That someone at Apple approved using that icon for this action is dumb.

**WHAT TO DO INSTEAD: SLOW AND STEADY**

If you are going to make such dramatic changes, start small, get the user accustomed to it, and then start making changes. Doing two things at the same time, updating the UI and changing the way things work is a recipe for disaster.