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Apple Updates iWork, iMovie, and GarageBand With Refreshed Icons and Designs for macOS Big Sur
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I really wanted the icons to be familiar across platforms, it makes switching between them easier and was the one big benefit of this design change.
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Fair. I guess I am less interested in saying anything negative about Garageband and more interested in learning how widespread its use it.
I will miss you, icon without masking box.
Apple do this in sake of Big Sur and all iOS interface unification. Previously I can easily recognize software icon because of distinctive shape, but with all boxy icon it takes more times for my eyes scanning what picture inside that box.
I believe they are too, the increased menu size, the large window padding in Big Sur would definitely suggest native touch input is on the horizon. Craig and the gang are denying and they are going to milk M1 on the old chassis for a while then when 2022 or 2024 comes, bam, our new Macs now include support for Touch. We have solved how to make touch natural and comfortable on a desktop and laptop. Craig will deny again, we are not trying to turn the Mac into an iPad, but saw it as a natural extension considering all M series Macs can run App Store apps and so many of our users are already familiar with iPads and iPhones, it was just the right time.
GarageBand will not work on my 2012 quad-core i7 Mac Mini running Catalina. But at least I won't be out of the loop for TOO long, since at either the very end of this year or the start of next year I'll be buying a new 13" MacBook Pro (probably an Intel model) so I can have a newer Mac laptop capable of running Mac OS 11 Big Sur (currently I still have that late 2009 polycarbonate MacBook, but I'm still gonna hold on to it for running older 32-bit applications with.)
Why didn’t they just use the iOS icons for pages, numbers, and keynote they already have? They are already recognizable and look so much better?
So much for consistency. What happened to the UI/UX team?
I’m sure you’ll turn out to be absolutely right on this, but dang, based on my experiences, I would pay extra money not to have a touchscreen on any computer that already has keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
Every laptop I have used (I’ve never owned one, however) that has a touchscreen provides an experience that is unnecessarily diminished/complicated by its inclusion, which seems to only be done on the basis that “we just gotta make the displays touchscreens, right?”
And I just don’t see even serial iconoclast Apple being able to resist this “logic” when every other manufacturers’ laptops all boast sexy, sexy (fingerprint greasy) touchscreens.
WOW, why did they decide to do this horrible translucent background around the document when zoomed out?
I don’t need to see anything beyond what I’m working on! 🤯🤯🤯
And this crazy ORANGE color in the menus??? My eyes constantly keep running away from my text to the menus. OMG WTH, it’s soooo distracting!!! 😱🤦♂️🤷♂️
I don’t need to see anything beyond what I’m working on! 🤯🤯🤯
And this crazy ORANGE color in the menus??? My eyes constantly keep running away from my text to the menus. OMG WTH, it’s soooo distracting!!! 😱🤦♂️🤷♂️
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I have not seen these screenshots before. That is truly horrendous. Violates all kinds of UX guidelines, such as keep the focus on the task at hand. Even Windows was never this bad.
You can adjust that in System Preferences, can‘t you?
(Probably even the transparity)
The icons don't disappoint me regarding their skeuomorphism or flatness. I just don't see the Desktop Publishing of Pages.app represented by a note taking icon.
You can change the accent color in system preferences if you don’t like the app’s default accent color.
Oh man.... they need to hire some actual designers to design these icons!
Speaking as someone who enjoyed Soundtrack and didn’t initially “get” GarageBand, I’ve found that it DOES expect you to know more and do more stuff, BUT it does provide some really fun times once you “get” it. And, since it’s been awhile, there’s been a TON of not-torturous YouTube tutorials created for it that can help you figure out how to do a thing when you get stuck.
If you want to give it another quick try, create an empty project, choose the “mic” under Audio, click “Create”, and then look for loops under the icon in the upper right (or press ‘o’) After it indexes your loops, use the search (works much like Soundtrack’s) and start dragging some files over. Oh, and if there was a dearth of loops previously, they just added a ton, PLUS, there are places like here where you can download (over 70,000) more, royalty free.
Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis from SampleRadar
95,771 free music sample downloads
Always create tracks the same way and you never have to be concerned with actually playing an instrument. As a fan of Lemon AND of happily absentmindedly humming my own created tunes, it’s a good feeling and hope you can pick it up and run with it
I also think they’re not going to do it. I don’t see anything that makes me think the Mac isn’t eventually going away. OR maaaaybe, possibly just decreasing sales down to the few million that need Macs to develop apps for iOS or run Pro Apps (I really think iOS will do these things eventually, but I could see it happening). I just see macOS as the “computer for those that are accustomed to mouse interfaces”. When people grew up with mice, they saw command lines as “lesser”. So, too, I think folks that grew up with touch will want products focused on touch. As folks who grew up on touch increase AND Apple continues to add Mac-like features to iOS/iPadOS, there will be less and less of a need for Macs at all.
It’s not “this is a second (third?) wind for the Mac” it’s more “this is a way we can keep making Macs profitably as the desire for them falls off”
Which will not update because Big Sur will not update 14hrs after its release
Following today's release of macOS Big Sur, Apple has updated a number of its apps to support the new operating system version and upcoming Apple Silicon Macs.
Apple's suite of iWork apps is among the updates, with Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes all sporting refreshed icons and a "refined new design on macOS Big Sur." Stability and performance improvements are also included. Alongside the updates on the Mac side, the iWork apps for iOS have seen minor updates for stability and performance improvements.
GarageBand for Mac has also been updated with a new icon and refreshed macOS Big Sur design, among other improvements and additions.Alongside GarageBand and the iWork apps, Apple updated its iMovie app for Mac with Apple Silicon support. No other new features are included.
Apple updated its professional video and audio apps, including Final Cut Pro and Logic, earlier today.
Article Link: Apple Updates iWork, iMovie, and GarageBand With Refreshed Icons and Designs for macOS Big Sur
