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OS X 10.10 Mockup Shows Off 'Flat', iOS-Inspired Design

Although I mostly don't mind the flattening of ios, I think this would be terrible on the full OSX, at least the way this artist has depicted it. 3d information is actually really useful when you have multiple windows all piled up and tiled together. And interestingly, his mockup images all show single apps at once... In real life of course, many people multitask.... A fully flat approach like this wouldn't be very conductive to multitasking in a visual sense I think. Keeping track of window focus, etc. Might be a challenge when there's tons of stuff open at once. I don't inherently mind some flattening, etc., but there might be an impact on functionality. Of course, Apple does often make trade-offs where form takes precedence over functionality... :/
 
Sackvillenb said:
Although I mostly don't mind the flattening of ios, I think this would be terrible on the full OSX, at least the way this artist has depicted it. 3d information is actually really useful when you have multiple windows all piled up and tiled together. And interestingly, his mockup images all show single apps at once... In real life of course, many people multitask.... A fully flat approach like this wouldn't be very conductive to multitasking in a visual sense I think. Keeping track of window focus, etc. Might be a challenge when there's tons of stuff open at once. I don't inherently mind some flattening, etc., but there might be an impact on functionality. Of course, Apple does often make trade-offs where form takes precedence over functionality... :/
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But it the mockup is not completely flat, there are clearly drop shadows in them.
 

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Fishrrman said:
Apparently a lot of young-un's here weren't around for the original "Mac OS".

I was.

It was as "flat" as it gets.

It took decades to develop a fuller, "deeper" look to the OS.

Why go back ??
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Back in the day, UI design was limited by tech, not by fashion. Fashion is just an opportunity to sell the same thing multiple times.

Apple's pre-iOS 7 UI work was user-oriented and tech-bound. Now it's junkie-oriented and fashion-bound.
 
gentlefury said:
Well, it's been OSX for about 13 years now. Why are they stuck on that version? I've NEVER heard of a single version with only point releases for 13 years. Do they ever plan to move forward? I assumed this was finally the year. I still doubt they would go 10.10...that's just dumb. In numerical terms 10.10 = 10.1
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OSX has become a brand it's now used as the operating system name like Windows or Ubuntu.

Whether they make it 11.0 or 10.10 I bet they still call it OSX - whether it makes sense to anyone or not.
 
EVERY OS IS BLOODY BLUE!!!!

One of the reasons i love the look of osx is because it's grey GREY is better and classy. if you look at any os it's always blue, a lot of android phones are blue bright frickin' blue.

This design hurts my eye, burn it with fire!

Hate it with a passion.
 
I'd like to see Apple go in the direction of their pro apps with a darker, blacker, but glossier look.
 
I'm sort of digging this. As long as they don't remove functionality from the OS. Also, if Apple does indeed choose to go the overly transparent route, I hope there's a setting to adjust it or remove it, as there currently is with the OS X menu bar.
 
DerekRod said:
I like it seems cool but can we please stop gutting functionality
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what functionality has been gutted?

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Sky Blue said:
Is chapter 1 and chapter 10 in a book the same thing?
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those arent fractions. if the versioning model is using decimal fractions, then 10.1 and 10.10 are the same.

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parish said:
The dot in software version numbers is not a decimal point, it's just a separator - could just as easily been a ':' or '-', etc. - so the bit after the '.' is not a decimal fraction.

If it was a decimal point, how could you have 10.9.2? or 32.0.1700.107 (the current version of Chrome on OS X)?
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good point. if not a decimal fraction model then it's not bound by fraction rules.

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andreiru said:
Losing interest
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that happens in life. the key is not to make the important things in your life tech toys, but rather deep & meaningful concepts, behaviors and people that give you long-standing pleasure.
 
I like this, it's pretty much what I had in mind. I don't think much needs to be tweaked to OS X to make it more "modern" but the things I had in mind were the top menu bars, little tweaks to things like folders, aqua elements, etc.
 
Well I like it! I don't like the look of the semi-transarent windows entirely, but otherwise the color scheme and flat iOS style looks good to me.
 
pubwvj said:
I wish they would stop messing with the interface.
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this is a designer's mockup, not apple.

1) Legacy support so all older Macintosh applications that ran under previous versions of the Mac OS will run again. We have legacy data locked to old hardware because Apple broke compatibility. There is a tremendous amount of older software that has never been reworked for OSX, especially for small business and in the educational field. Just use wrappers.
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get over it -- this isnt an apple problem, it's a tech problem. can you run your old Windows 2.0 apps on Windows 8? nope. OS X had an emulation layer for many years, and gradually phased it out. why? because its easier to make kickass new things when you dont have to be backwards compatible for all time. apple is king at cleaning house. see serial ports, floppy drive, CD-ROM, etc..

2) Cross compatibility so DOS, Windows, CPM, etc can run on the Mac without the nonsense of BootCamp. Again, use wrappers.
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again, you have no idea what youre talking about. purchase a third-party app for this, such as VMWare Fusion.

3) iOS Apps to work on the Mac. It's absurd that they don't. Use wrappers if you gotta.
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clueless. iOS apps arent enabled on the mac because theyre an entirely different platform w/ entirely different use cases. ya cant tap on your imac and you dont want to, as discussed ad nauseum elsewhere.


4) Stability.
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mine's fine. runs for months and months w/o issue. i get a crash maybe one or twice a year.

6) Speed
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my 2011 imac w/ SSD and 3.4ghz and 20gb ram screams. boots in < 10 seconds, loads apps near-instantly.

7) Smaller footprint - hey, I can dream.
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not a dream -- 10.6 (Snow Leopard) did exactly that.
 
gentlefury said:
Well, it's been OSX for about 13 years now. Why are they stuck on that version? I've NEVER heard of a single version with only point releases for 13 years. Do they ever plan to move forward? I assumed this was finally the year. I still doubt they would go 10.10...that's just dumb. In numerical terms 10.10 = 10.1
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The only dumb thing is to mistake a version point for a decimal point. It's something completely different.

OS X 10.9.2

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

• MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
• MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
• PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

The major version of OS X will never change. There will only be a new major version, when there is a fundamental architectural change to the whole OS, breaking compatibility with all applications. And than there will also be a new brand name for the software. As long as the name is OS X the major version will be 10.
 
baryon said:
Right now if you open a Finder window and set the icon spacing and the window size, that will only apply to THAT particular folder and nothing else. You'll be stuck with the default view forever unless you change each and every folder manually which could potentially take tens of thousands, if not millions of years, if you have many folders on your system. Now I don't have that much time unfortunately.
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Can you just do it once on the top folder (say documents or whatever is at the top of your folder hierarchy) and it applies all the way through the tree below it?
 
Guys please... this isn't real. So calm down. Apple will likely not have enough time to fully revamp their OS. From what I hear, it's likely they will update the grey gradients, glossy buttons and animations. That's pretty much it. This concept goes farther than that...
 
iOS7 and these "flat" mock-ups are horrendous

This is honestly worse than M$FT doubling down on Zune UI by creating Windows 8 with Metro. At least, you can purchase an app like Start8 to get around the goofy Metro stuff, and underneath the skin is a really, really good version of Windows. iOS7 is UGLY, not intuitive, BUGGY, and worst of all - you can't read the font without 20/20 vision. The Empire is Haunted.

If Cook could add ANY value to Apple post-Jobs, it would be to finally start listening to customer opinions once in awhile. PUT IVE BACK INTO HARDWARE DESIGN AND OUT OF UI. Please!!!!

:cool::cool::cool:
 
Looks very horrible, if this were to happen, i wouldn't update, and until mavericks got to outdated t use as a normal os, i would heavily rely on theming. Hope this "flat" craze thing is over soon, its okay in iOS 7, but never in OS X.
 
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