On macOS, why does closing windows not quit the app?

I’m on macOS and I’m trying to understand the usability decisions behind the close action on some application windows. I have just started terminal:
Nothing to see here of relevance: terminal has been opened, and it’s clear in the botto…
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How to help Quality Assurance team to validate designs against development environment in an Agile project?

I wanted to know how you deal with similar situations. We are working using agile methodology so we design piece by piece of the designs. But it happened a lot that when later QA wants to check if what it is developed with our designs of c…
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Is there a use case for overriding/overpainting the OS-provided system menu?

An app developed by another team here at Acme Software overrides – in fact, erases – the operating system-provided system menu (it also custom paints the minimize, maximize, and close button, but that’s another issue). My opinion is that …
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8 WordPress Plugins for Translating Your WordPress Website

If you need to translate or offer your WordPress content in multiple languages, we have the best free plugins that will do it for you.
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Schedule on Mobile. To drill down or not to drill down?

One aspect of the app I am working on is an employee schedule. The main functionalities are to include an employee’s schedule for the current day and the next 7 upcoming days.
The information to be seen is:
The job time
Job name
Job des…
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Examples and suggested principles of designing dissipating usage tracking experiences?

I was wondering if anyone could assist, I’m not sure what the correct terminology for this is, and therefore struggling to find any research on it.
I’m designing an experience where users have a certain amount of ‘uses’ of a product, but …
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How Do You Define a Successful Web Project?

Subjective as it may be, what constitutes a successful web design project? And how do you effectively explain it?
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Links within an iPhone app

Imagine an iPhone app with a tab bar (5 items) and a link to the user’s profile in the header.
Now let’s say that you’re somewhere in tab 5 and you’d like to make a link to a screen within the user’s profile.
I feel like this is not a …
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15+ Best Free Display Fonts for Creative Projects

Download one of these highly creative free display font families and grab the attention of the viewer and make sure your message gets noticed!
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8 Tip-Top Toggle Switch CSS Snippets

We highlight some inspiring examples of how web designers are bringing excitement to toggle switches with CSS, while still maintaining their functionality.
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