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

[Schtumple]

This honestly looks like what Windows 8 should've been.

I definitely dig the design and I'd love to see Apple utilise something like this in the next version, but I would also like to see it completely turned off for professional apps.

 

[bbfc]

When will we reach Mac OS 11!?

Isn't OS X just a brand name now? They don't use version numbers anymore.

 

[Sky Blue]

3) iOS Apps to work on the Mac. It's absurd that they don't. Use wrappers if you gotta.

This makes no sense. What good would a touch based app for mobile devices be on a full sized notebook/desktop? Developers have the tools and the distribution to make mac specific apps + iOS specific apps.

 

[redscull]

People should realize that this 'flat design' is a trend, not an evolution.... and trends are bad to follow for operating systems...

Yes. Flat is trendy. It is not functionally better. Certain aspects of a flat design are actually inferior from a usability perspective, which is why Windows 3.11 was relegated to the past. But today's trendy users are too young to remember DOS and Win 3.11 so this step backwards actually feels new to them.

 

[nagromme]

Not half bad. I think keeping the shadow is good for making visual sense of overlapping windows.

Except I wouldn't like those big transparent title-areas through which other mess would show (albeit softly) in actual use. (Not a fan of that in Windows. Not a fan of it in the original OS X!)

Something along these lines is bound to evolve eventually. But first, iOS 7's look is very young and has its own evolving to do.

 

[Xytal]

That's actually pretty nice. I like it.

 

[bbyrdhouse]

Honestly kind of feels like Windows.

That was the first thing that I said too ...

 

[iPhone7s]

I love that look. OSX is looking outdated now.

 

[Slartibartfass]

Omg

This looks like an early version of Windows..... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[iPhilPHX]

No. Please.... no

 

[thedeejay]

This is beyond disgusting. I guess I'm sticking with Mavericks!

 

[marvz]

How can it be called 10.10???? 10.10 is the same number as 10.1!!!!

It has to be OS11 already!!

It's not. Because that is not a decimal number... How many times this has to be said?

And yes please, can't wait for this redesign!!!

 

[Naaaaak]

This isn't very iOS-7 like at all.

The fonts are horrible, the image quality is bad, and there's nothing flat about this at all.

It looks more inspired by Vista than anything else.

 

[bartszyszka]

Edgar Rios

This was done way better by Edgar Rios on Behance:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-next-Mac-OS/9995849

 

[iisdan]

Isn't this windows 7? oh wait no, the x is on the left side.

This isn't as ugly as iOS7 but still pretty damn ugly.

People need to get over their hate of skumorphism, you can't just replace elements with nothing in the name of knowing tech.

 

[seamer]

How can it be called 10.10???? 10.10 is the same number as 10.1!!!!

It has to be OS11 already!!

It is the same, yet it's different. You just need to pick a numbering convention and stick with it. It's the inconsistent numberings that kill anything.

 

[AstronomyiPhone]

I'm all for mixing it up, but...too much Windows - it burns!

 

[BJonson]

Hell NO!

 

[gr8tfly]

Terrible.

Flat windows in a multi-windowing GUI don't work - there are no visual cues as to their relationship to each other. For instance, what's foreground and what's background. There are some exceptions, of course, such as for palettes in PS - there aren't deep drop shadows as there are in other windows.

In general, they wouldn't work as well. It would be a change for change sake - something Mac OX X doesn't need. It's not a "consumer device" like an iPad Air. (I was among the shocked when iOS 7 was released, but when I got my iPad Air, I could see where the airy look of 7 really did belong there. It's a different market than the portable or desktop computer.)

 

[AstronomyiPhone]

This was done way better by Edgar Rios on Behance:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-next-Mac-OS/9995849

Image

Not bad.

 

[Orlandoech]

I am not against a flat design, but I feel like it should come with better performance.

For example, the OS could take up less space and/or be able to render things faster if it does not have to constantly redraw big 3D icons, but instead simple flat icons.

Although, I presume the perceivable difference between flat and more complex 3D icons would be minimal at best even if everything was optimized to use smaller file sizes.

And was this the case with iOS7? Uh... no... exact opposite in fact.

 

[bojennett]

Terrible

Looks like Windows 7. Don't look like Windows 7, please.

 

[Orlandoech]

This was done way better by Edgar Rios on Behance:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-next-Mac-OS/9995849

Image

Love this concept.

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Looks like Windows 7. Don't look like Windows 7, please.

Sad part, Windows 7 is the best Windows lol... wait no, Windows ME was.

 

[stars_fan]

Why don't people get this? 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)?

Your chrome is out of date

 

[Reason077]

Not bad. Heading in the right direction, albeit way too Windows-ish. However the toolbar icons are not flat and don't fit in with the rest of the design.