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

FLAT DESIGN NEEDS TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!!


Hurts my eyes! Too much color, wayyy too bright, the icons are wayyy too thin and easily lost!

Steve and Scott were right with skeuomorphism (minus the leather windows, Game Center and ical)

I hope Jony snaps out of the whole flat & bright fad.
 
z3r0 said:
FLAT DESIGN NEEDS TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!!


Hurts my eyes! Too much color, wayyy too bright, the icons are wayyy too thin and easily lost!

Steve and Scott were right with skeuomorphism (minus the leather windows, Game Center and ical)

I hope Jony snaps out of the whole flat & bright fad.
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I couldn't agree more. It's infuriating and I don't understand why they're going in that direction. Just the change to flat/grey after Snow Leopard annoyed me no end. It's senseless change for the sake of it and actually reduces user-friendliness because you loose any visual indication of a drive type in the sidebar for example because there's no way of telling if it's a USB, Firewire or internal drive.
 
Lets guess if Apple will flatten and lighten the design of the next OSX, it will be nice to let user darken it like in iOS 7.1 :apple: :) Anyway i don't agree with nor like this Flat Design i hope i could do rollback to the actual look and feel :)
 
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Well, try to remember that this is what it COULD look like. It could look like almost anything at this point.

I don't like the mockup or the flat design for OS X. It truly does remind me of Windows.
 
I like the idea of a redesign of Mac OS. OS X and the stoplight buttons are looking old now. It's time for something new, but I'd like to see something more professional and modern than translucent glass. This concept reminds me of Windows Aero, which I didn't like.
 
Bring Back Kaleidoscope!

Mac OS 8 and 9 were completely customizable and it was fun!
Since OS X, we are stuck with just 2 Appearances: blue or graphite… Graphite? There hasn't been a graphite Mac for 10 years!? :confused:

This does look like windows.
:rolleyes:

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Jord5i said:
No it's not, in versioning is extremely common to go 10.10, 10.11 etc.
It's not math.
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It should be OS X.X

OR OS XX

or OS XXX (more fun)

:cool:

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z3r0 said:
FLAT DESIGN NEEDS TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!!


Hurts my eyes! Too much color, wayyy too bright, the icons are wayyy too thin and easily lost!

Steve and Scott were right with skeuomorphism (minus the leather windows, Game Center and ical)

I hope Jony snaps out of the whole flat & bright fad.
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Jony IS Flat….

Resuscitate Steve please!
 
barkmonster said:
... It's senseless change for the sake of it and actually reduces user-friendliness ...
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Exactly that.

I wouldn't even mind a new look, but when they ignore usability, it makes me angry. Some people actually use their devices and care about ease of use instead of just decorating their home with it.

At the beginning of OS X Steve said "We need killer graphics!" and he said that for a specific reason.
 
I hope not. I am fine with the iconography, but Windows already went down the semitransparent title bars...it just doesn't really serve a purpose.
 
Microsoft Anyone?

Now I know who hired those Microsoft designers! Pretty soon this IOS interface will have a real break-though... black and white?

Lesson learned: change merely for the sake of change is not always good.
 
z3r0 said:
FLAT DESIGN NEEDS TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!!


Hurts my eyes! Too much color, wayyy too bright, the icons are wayyy too thin and easily lost!

Steve and Scott were right with skeuomorphism (minus the leather windows, Game Center and ical)

I hope Jony snaps out of the whole flat & bright fad.
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THIS!

I kept iOS 6 on my iPod Touch 5, although I had no choice with the iPad mini retina.

Using my iPod Touch's interface is SO much easier on the eyes and visually appealing than using my iPad mini. Sadly it doesn't have the screen real estate or cellular data.
 
I kind of like it. Mac has needed a big change for a while, although if it kills functionality then never mind.
 
If it gets list view for Calendar in Mac and iPad versions (preferably a month/week, with list view underneath), I'm for it.

Some interface consistency across all versions would be DEEPLY appreciated. Locations of functionality/buttons, top or bottom in iPhone, iPad and Mac are approaching deal-breaker proportions. And click-off or close for popovers is just laughable.

iOS 7 gets a pass for the insanely short development time, but things had better standardise pretty quickly. iOS currently exhibits worse interface consistency than Windows ever did. And if there's any Mac people left to bring Macintosh sensibilities to the "more NeXt than Mac" OSX, somebody had better start listening to them.

Ive had better be well into his HIG masterwork for all OSX versions. Fundamentals are what's missing from iOS and OSX for Mac, and they'd better show soon or there will be a whole new round of "Jobs was the only one who could see further than skin-deep", and none of us needs THAT.

Tim, sit Jony down and make him finish his essay, or there will be blood in the streets by WWDC.
 
barkmonster said:
First there was the flat and grey obsession after Snow Leopard, then the removal of useful functionality like smart folders in the sidebar, if the OS starts turning more form-before-function like most of their thin for the sake of it hardware, I'm going to be sticking with a system that dual boots Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion forever because Mavericks is a trainwreck for me and anything even worse is just going to bug me as much as Windows does.
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There was no "flat and grey" obsession is OS X after Snow Leopard. Probably the only thing that is greyer in Mavericks than in Snow Leopard is Finder sidebar icons.

I think the current UI is classy, non-cool, non-trendy, only subtly changed since 10.5, non-flat and a pleasure to look at and to use.
 
Horrible, absolutely horrible.

I was disgusted after I installed IOS7 on my iPad 2 and regretted it deeply. This flat madness has to end.

:(
 
deluxeshredder said:
There was no "flat and grey" obsession is OS X after Snow Leopard. Probably the only thing that is greyer in Mavericks than in Snow Leopard is Finder sidebar icons.

I think the current UI is classy, non-cool, non-trendy, only subtly changed since 10.5, non-flat and a pleasure to look at and to use.
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You're imagining things. My observations about the sidebar are valid. Look at Mail and the calendar compared to how it used to be. It's a terrible change for the worse. Their obsession with uselessness is even worse in iTunes/iOS. Why the separate podcast app? It's useless because you can't create playlists with other content including podcasts. The idiotic cover flow or album view default at every turn is completely infuriating and pointless, as is the removal of column browser for devices in iTunes. I'm really getting sick of lowering user-friendliness and removal of functionality that wasn't broken in the first place. No Smart folders in the sidebar is a big let down because it means they're not in load/save dialogues either. More senseless change.
 
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