Yeah, the Mail icon has looked stale for awhile. I've never understood why they didn't at least update the stamp to coincide with the OS release imagery. Theres a certain amount of brand identity that goes along with icons, so I get whey they'd opt for tweaks over wholesale changes. But at this point, a tiny pic of Yosemite would make more sense than the random eagle that's been flying around there for years. Personally, I tend to swap my icons for custom versions anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me. But it would be nice if Apple would update the look every now and again, too.
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Apple Shares WWDC OS X Yosemite Video Highlighting Design Changes
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Yeah, the Mail icon has looked stale for awhile. I've never understood why they didn't at least update the stamp to coincide with the OS release imagery. Theres a certain amount of brand identity that goes along with icons, so I get whey they'd opt for tweaks over wholesale changes. But at this point, a tiny pic of Yosemite would make more sense than the random eagle that's been flying around there for years. Personally, I tend to swap my icons for custom versions anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me. But it would be nice if Apple would update the look every now and again, too.
Agreed. I remember when leopard was introduced, it blew me outta the water. I was twelve and had a single core celeron running a copy of Vista. I've always loved macs having grown up with them (from OS 9 to Tiger). That was a great year, aluminium iMacs, new innovative features like time machine, space theme, awesome intro video, awesome interface redesign.
I agree OS X has begun to look dated, however the whole space theme and glass dock, to me is timeless. Technology and space just work, and appeal to the highend look Apple was going for. I also miss the gimmicky apple features I grew up with like the intro videos. It made owning a mac that much more special. I hope they never decide to get rid of the startup chime.
New dock takes more visual screen space than 3D dock
To my eye, the new dock is a big smudge-like bar with spots of bright color across the bottom of the desktop, and occludes more screen space than the 3D dock. The top 1/3 of each icon in the 3D dock have only the desktop behind them, and thus more of the desktop is visible and the icons seem more integrated with the screen and with the user's icons on the desktop.
For all of Apple's talk about elements of the OS not interfering with the user experience when not needed, brighter icons are more likely to draw the user's attention than softer colors. And a big rectangular shape (the new dock) looks more like a big object on the desktop.
Sure, Dock Hiding can be activated (I hope), but in my experience the 3D dock blended in sufficiently so that Hiding wasn't necessary.
To my eye, the new dock is a big smudge-like bar with spots of bright color across the bottom of the desktop, and occludes more screen space than the 3D dock. The top 1/3 of each icon in the 3D dock have only the desktop behind them, and thus more of the desktop is visible and the icons seem more integrated with the screen and with the user's icons on the desktop.
For all of Apple's talk about elements of the OS not interfering with the user experience when not needed, brighter icons are more likely to draw the user's attention than softer colors. And a big rectangular shape (the new dock) looks more like a big object on the desktop.
Sure, Dock Hiding can be activated (I hope), but in my experience the 3D dock blended in sufficiently so that Hiding wasn't necessary.
Maybe it's just me, but I've never had many problems from any OS X version. I thought Lion was horrible, but it ended up being my graphics card going out. lol.
I'm actually a little disappointment in the new design. I was hoping for more uniformity between the iOS and Mac OS X icons at least (squircles?). I've always hated the rounded iTunes and App Store icons. I actually like the bright/parallax iOS 7 design.
Yosemite's Finder doesn't feel like it's that big of a change to me. I would love to get the behind the scenes story about it because it's almost like Ive's team backed off a little with all the negative iOS 7 press.
Yosemite's Finder doesn't feel like it's that big of a change to me. I would love to get the behind the scenes story about it because it's almost like Ive's team backed off a little with all the negative iOS 7 press.
To my eyes the dock took up about an inch of extra space in the 3rd dimension. Now that it is infinitely thin, I have all this extra space behind it. I mean, sure... I don't necessarily need the extra space, but it's nice to know in case I need it some time in the future.
When I saw the overabundance of translucency on Yosemite, I was reminded of Windows Vista. Also, seeing the widgets on notification reminded me of Gadgets on Vista. Remember those?
Many will not ever get to see Gadgets since rather than Microsoft solving the security holes, they simply release an update security fix to disable them all together.
When I saw the overabundance of translucency on Yosemite, I was reminded of Windows Vista. Also, seeing the widgets on notification reminded me of Gadgets on Vista. Remember those?
I was one of the few that liked Vista when it came out. It was the first step MS took to get away from XP, and for that I was thankful.
Never got into using widgets on any OS. The closest was on Android and I don't even remember what I used.
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From what I've gathered, those Windows 8 tiles cover much of the same purpose most people would have for them.
Disclaimer: I used Windows 8 for all of about 5 minutes once at a kiosk.
Mac OS Titlebar
I'm sure this will start a firestorm, but after decades of using Macs, I am very sick of the Mac Titlebar. Please update this beyond just a new font.
I wish the Title bar was more like bar in Safari, where the titles are there, but on a transparent bar, but when you hover over them the word is inside a grey "capsule" as you move left to right. When you do not need the Titlebar it just slides up & off the screen. When you need it, the mouse cursor will make it roll back down when it is at top of screen
Needs to be extremely minimalistic & "on demand only".
I'm sure this will start a firestorm, but after decades of using Macs, I am very sick of the Mac Titlebar. Please update this beyond just a new font.
I wish the Title bar was more like bar in Safari, where the titles are there, but on a transparent bar, but when you hover over them the word is inside a grey "capsule" as you move left to right. When you do not need the Titlebar it just slides up & off the screen. When you need it, the mouse cursor will make it roll back down when it is at top of screen
Needs to be extremely minimalistic & "on demand only".
Yeah, Snow Leopard on my old 2006 Macbook Pro wakes up and goes to sleep almost instantly today, but my new mid 2012 cMBP takes a ridiculous amount of time to go to sleep. I just need to put a good samsung evo in it. But I don't understand why they would drop such an awesome optimization.
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iTunes just needs a complete overhaul to begin with. I still don't like iTunes 11. I had kind of forgotten about it until I sat down at my old G5 with iTunes 10 and realized how much better that interface was (in my opinion). They really really need to address how it handles tv show media and bonus (appleTV too) The media management is horrendous.
It isn't surprising though that there are some rough edges - when Jony took over UI the whole idea was to create continuity between the industrial design aesthetic and the UI itself. The attempt is to make the software indistinguishable from the hardware so that it comes off with a uniquely Apple appearance whilst most competitors products tend to have a jarring effect between the hardware design and what eventually runs on top of it - best example of what would be an Lenovo Thinkpad with its classic black professional design and then the hideous appearance of Windows Vista with its attempt to be 'modern' through the over the top use of effects, transparency etc. (Windows 7 and Windows 8 were still 'fish out of water' - the default theme provided by Lenovo doesn't really fix the underlying problem).
iTunes suggestion for Yosemite
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Can please have a Pause/play/skip track in the toolbar? Not sure if there's an Application in the OS X App Store but it would be great. I hate having to go command + tab then space bar to pause music.
https://flic.kr/p/nCWxEa https://www.flickr.com/people//Can please have a Pause/play/skip track in the toolbar? Not sure if there's an Application in the OS X App Store but it would be great. I hate having to go command + tab then space bar to pause music.
I miss Tiger too
I have a friend who still uses it.
Remember widgets?
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