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Intuition

This morning, I saw a popular Internet post remarking how the “install window” on macOS is not intuitive. The “install window”? A Finder window displaying contents of a disk image (DMG) from Slack.

This doesn’t even address the core concern about this, which is that the presentation of an app next to an Applications folder shortcut with an arrow is arguably not intuitive. And arguably, a folder that appears to be inside the disk image as the target for where you should drag the app to doesn’t really make any sense. Ideally, someone would open a DMG file (that is not named so poorly), and the system identifies it as containing an app, and asks to install it for you.

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