What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
I have to be honest and go completely against the crowd here - but I think the UI updates are very good. They make the two OSes look cohesive but in a tasteful way. The extra padding in all of the UI is the only thing that I chafe at a little bit, it feels unnecessary. I really don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re going to put out touch screen Macs.<p>So I&#x27;m not sure what there is to get upset about. I don&#x27;t see any big functional changes in the OS aside from reworking the notification center UI a little- and I like this new version more. It&#x27;s already been confirmed that they aren&#x27;t locking down apps to the app store or anything like that.<p>It seems like people think that because they&#x27;re taking design cues from iOS they intend to lock it down like iOS and they&#x27;re transferring that fear into dislike of the new UI itself.<p>Apple knows that a large percentage of the people who buy its computers are software engineers and if they ever do fully lock their computers down in that way they&#x27;d be ceding that marketshare entirely, along with catching quite a bit of heat for it in the press. Maybe eventually that calculus is worth it to them but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s what this is a step towards. I think they just want users who are fully plugged into their ecosystem to feel like it&#x27;s a cohesive experience across platforms and this achieves that.