# Mystery meet UX design in MacOS

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/mystery-meet-ux-design-in-macos/24222>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [February 19, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/mystery-meet-ux-design-in-macos/24222 "2023-02-19T14:28:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![benaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@benaston](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/benaston)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/mystery-meet-ux-design-in-macos/24222/1 "2023-02-19T14:28:18Z")

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This user interface, present in full-screen mode on MacOS, is almost perfectly designed to trick you into unintentionally exiting the application.

[https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/2/f/2ffb2e48a36ae971ef335d4a013425fe1db83989.mov](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/2/f/2ffb2e48a36ae971ef335d4a013425fe1db83989.mov)

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/mystery-meet-ux-design-in-macos/24222/2 "2023-02-20T16:42:39Z")

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Nice catch 🙂 It can indeed be confusing – though many other macOS apps (even Safari) follow the very same pattern. We are working on a UI reorganization as we speak that will fix this issue as well.

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**Author:** ![benaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@benaston](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/benaston)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/mystery-meet-ux-design-in-macos/24222/3 "2023-02-22T10:02:48Z")

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Thank you.