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No More Icons In Every Menu By Default
Apple has officially abandoned its brief experiment with icon-heavy macOS menus, explicitly advising against them in updated Human Interface Guidelines.
What: With the release of macOS Golden Gate, Apple has removed the default inclusion of icons in every menu item that was introduced in macOS Tahoe. The company's updated Human Interface Guidelines now cite that previous design as an example of poor practice.
Why it matters: This serves as a rare admission of a design failure by Apple, underscoring that cognitive load is often increased, rather than improved, when UI elements are over-decorated with icons.
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Apple has reversed the icon-heavy menu design introduced with macOS Tahoe.
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