The Touchscreen MacBook Is Missing Something
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Apple finally made a touchscreen MacBook. But is a touch-sensitive screen enough to change how we use a computer?
Design research for your project: https://www.iliawerner.com/analysis
Steve Jobs warned about vertical touchscreens in 2010. So what has changed? And what changes when your finger takes the place of a cursor?
From the first iPhone and iPadOS to macOS and visionOS, I look at the design patterns behind touch — and what a touchscreen Mac still needs before it can feel like a real step forward.
I also do this kind of research for businesses, delivered as a private video and a long-form article with sources. Details and applications are on the website above.
My video on the three levels of design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqDMCTL41c
CHAPTERS
0:00 Was Steve Jobs Right?
1:10 Why Touch Feels Different
3:23 Why Bigger Buttons Don’t Work
5:20 What Touch Actually Adds
6:38 The Missing Breakthrough
7:19 Intent Before Action
8:18 Design Research for Your Project
8:39 What Comes After Touch?
SOURCES & FOOTAGE
Apple / Apple Developer:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111468/
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/303/
Marques Brownlee / MKBHD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2reQut8WNGc
Vincent Zhong / Zhong Wenze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7D4j7_Zto
MacRumors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpgdj7Rbjk
Bas Ording / Computer History Museum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9XdVWr_70
Microsoft Research — High-Performance Touch:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/applied-sciences-group-high-performance-touch/
Google — Material Design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw
Christian Holz & Patrick Baudisch — Understanding Touch:
https://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/understanding-touch.html
ARCHIVE IMAGES
shishimaru / Buzzap — W-ZERO3:
https://buzzap.jp/news/20140429-willcom-wzero3-ws003sh/
Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels — Mac OS X Tiger:
https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/mac-os-x-10-4-tiger/
Apple / DylanMcD8 — iPhone OS 1 screenshot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_OS_1_SS.png
Music licensed through Storyblocks. Sound effects from Pixabay.
Design Lovers explores the ideas behind interfaces, products, and the things we use every day.
#MacBook #Touchscreen #Design
Design research for your project: https://www.iliawerner.com/analysis
Steve Jobs warned about vertical touchscreens in 2010. So what has changed? And what changes when your finger takes the place of a cursor?
From the first iPhone and iPadOS to macOS and visionOS, I look at the design patterns behind touch — and what a touchscreen Mac still needs before it can feel like a real step forward.
I also do this kind of research for businesses, delivered as a private video and a long-form article with sources. Details and applications are on the website above.
My video on the three levels of design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqDMCTL41c
CHAPTERS
0:00 Was Steve Jobs Right?
1:10 Why Touch Feels Different
3:23 Why Bigger Buttons Don’t Work
5:20 What Touch Actually Adds
6:38 The Missing Breakthrough
7:19 Intent Before Action
8:18 Design Research for Your Project
8:39 What Comes After Touch?
SOURCES & FOOTAGE
Apple / Apple Developer:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111468/
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/303/
Marques Brownlee / MKBHD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2reQut8WNGc
Vincent Zhong / Zhong Wenze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7D4j7_Zto
MacRumors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpgdj7Rbjk
Bas Ording / Computer History Museum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9XdVWr_70
Microsoft Research — High-Performance Touch:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/applied-sciences-group-high-performance-touch/
Google — Material Design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw
Christian Holz & Patrick Baudisch — Understanding Touch:
https://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/understanding-touch.html
ARCHIVE IMAGES
shishimaru / Buzzap — W-ZERO3:
https://buzzap.jp/news/20140429-willcom-wzero3-ws003sh/
Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels — Mac OS X Tiger:
https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/mac-os-x-10-4-tiger/
Apple / DylanMcD8 — iPhone OS 1 screenshot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_OS_1_SS.png
Music licensed through Storyblocks. Sound effects from Pixabay.
Design Lovers explores the ideas behind interfaces, products, and the things we use every day.
#MacBook #Touchscreen #Design