‘It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe Icons’

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By John GruberJan 5, 2026, 10:24 pm252 pts
This essay from UI critic Nikita Prokopov is just devastatingly good. If you’ve looked at MacOS 26 Tahoe, you’re surely appalled by the new UI guideline that recommends putting icons next to every single menu item. Prokopov argues — with copious screenshot illustrations every step of the way — that this is a…

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