Naive Jakob Nielsen 20 years ago: "No professional interaction designer would make the mistake of using checkboxes when radio buttons are called for. The distinction between these two controls is one of the first things taught in any interaction design class." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/checkboxes-vs-radio-buttons/

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@nikitonsky @kalleboo I sincerely hope Apple correct this obviously erroneous decision. Excellent write up and some lovely examples which took me way back in time.

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Toggles?

@nikitonsky I love this (the article, not the loss of standard). And the last line;
"Kids these days will use a toggle anyway." <Chef kiss>

@ash > You see, people on the Web think conventions are boring. That regular controls need to be reinvented and redesigned. They don’t believe there are any norms.

*sucks air through teeth* yep, that stings a bit, yep

the arrow/cursor thing was not very fun, if you are that person
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Love it. Going all the way back to Turbo Vision and Borland IDEs (and beyond) 🤩

@nikitonsky This makes me a bit too angry

@nikitonsky Found checkboxes from 1988 in MacOS 6.0 https://infinitemac.org/1988/System%206.0

@nikitonsky This was a great piece. It could have been so many more words but the pictures did the work.

@nikitonsky Uh-oh 😬

https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/2024/02/things-for-apple-vision-pro/

@nikitonsky Look what I found.

https://danieldelaney.net/checkboxes/

September 2015