This is such a misstep IMO. Shapes are a GREAT way that human beings can make associations and limiting the number of shapes effectively limits how easy the icons are to discern from one another. Looking at my Dock now, it would be quite easy for me to determine 80% of the applications with nothing more than their shape and losing that ability would be disappointing.
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Third-Party Mac Icons Reimagined in OS X Yosemite Style
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30+ years of hardware evolution from monochrome screens to retina displays, and this is what were getting???
Its one thing to have an ugly iOS on those small screens, but now also on my 27 inch iMac? I must say, I found the screenshots shown on WWDC quite ok, but now that I see Yosemite up close, Im not a fan.
Its one thing to have an ugly iOS on those small screens, but now also on my 27 inch iMac? I must say, I found the screenshots shown on WWDC quite ok, but now that I see Yosemite up close, Im not a fan.
Since when is 3D considered innovation? And why do retina screens need shadows, textures, gradients and gloss? Personally I think this so-called flat design looks better on retina displays and I think the changes made in Yosemite pretty much signal that iMacs and MBAs are going retina.
DING DING DING.
SOMEONE ACTUALLY GETS IT!
More on the logic behind OS X icons: http://gizmodo.com/inspecting-yosemites-icons-1601082022
Icons and Priorities
I would agree with the posts above as far as the progress and direction over the last 30 years. Focus lately has been on iOS products and the "look" of "simplicity". Gee, if you want that, lets just go greyscale black and white and get it over with. Is that the next move? What happened to content a rich, warm, and inviting interface that actually makes sense? As far as the Mac OS, my vote is to actually fix things Apple broke with Mavericks. Hey, I've got an idea for Yosemite - how about allowing usable network connectivity speed via smb within a Windows server environment now that there is no such thing as an xserve with afp?!! How embarrassing is that?
I would agree with the posts above as far as the progress and direction over the last 30 years. Focus lately has been on iOS products and the "look" of "simplicity". Gee, if you want that, lets just go greyscale black and white and get it over with. Is that the next move? What happened to content a rich, warm, and inviting interface that actually makes sense? As far as the Mac OS, my vote is to actually fix things Apple broke with Mavericks. Hey, I've got an idea for Yosemite - how about allowing usable network connectivity speed via smb within a Windows server environment now that there is no such thing as an xserve with afp?!! How embarrassing is that?
Yosemite is looking like the UGLIEST version of mac so far, iOS looks like a beauty queen in comparison!
Like I would have preferred 100% iOS style than this absolute trash, seriously are we going to have to deal with this bull from apple? or will they learn to listen at least a little on the oncoming backlash that will be coming from apple users?
Like I would have preferred 100% iOS style than this absolute trash, seriously are we going to have to deal with this bull from apple? or will they learn to listen at least a little on the oncoming backlash that will be coming from apple users?
I will just add to this thread that if anyone wants to have a flat dock as in Yosemite, I found an app the other day called cdock.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdock/
I actually think it makes finding an app in the dock a bit easier.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdock/
I actually think it makes finding an app in the dock a bit easier.
Good job I don't actually have that many apps installed on my MacBook/in my dock. I can imagine some icons looking really dated and ugly for a while until developers change them. Similar to what was the case when iOS 7 was released. Suddenly lots of app icons just looked really ugly. 
I hate 'em, I hate 'em, I hate 'em!
Took 20+ years to get some nice 3D effects in OSs and Apps; Took only one year to take it all out. I guess that they simply ran out of ideas esthetically-wise
The 3d-ness of OS X probably peaked right at 10.0. It's been getting toned down ever since. The Aqua of Mavericks is no where near what it originally was.
Also, translucency was just added to the OS X design language, isn't that a 3D effect?
From one of the best comedy movies ever made. Nicely chosen. And I agree, horrible idea.
Is it bad that I love this? Maybe not as anything more than a gimmick OS, but I love the aesthetic.
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That definitely isn't flat... look at those dock icons, and scrollbars for starters. Plain and without eye candy yes, but not flat.
That last image is ridiculous. It's suppose to look like an operating system, not a children's toy.
Bleh - apps that still have splash screens irritate me. There's StarCraft 2, which for whatever reason wants you to click a big yellow "Play" button a few seconds after you start the app before it'll actually load anything. Lotus Notes also has a splash screen, where it insists you enter your password before it loads anything.
No, Apple properly satisfied the need for something to happen by making the icon immediately start to bounce in the dock all the way back in the first version of OS X. It's much better than Microsoft's "Sometimes the icon gets highlighted eventually in the task bar" that they have in Windows 7.
Actually, if you want modern splash screens, all iOS apps use them. When you tap the icon in iOS, it "zooms in" on a splash screen that's part of the standard iOS app bundle. The splash screen looks like the initial screen that will appear, minus any interactive elements.
Ugly, not even in any opinion, just ugly
And why is the icon for a flash drive a floppy disk in the last image? There's already a floppy icon for a floppy disk… I saw it when I connected an old floppy reader to create a System 3 installation disk.
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Yeah……….. if Apple could stop screwing up their GUI, that would be great.
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Unfortunately, yes if you are a developer. I wouldn't ever update my Mac OS version if I didn't need to in order to use the latest Xcode. Maybe this time I'll use a virtual machine. Microsoft supports their old (crappy) OSs for 13 years, Apple for 1 year.
At least the 'Flat OS''s Trash icon is better than Yosemite's.
Okay scratch that. They're both horrible.
Maybe they should put the trash in a circle too.
Okay scratch that. They're both horrible.
Maybe they should put the trash in a circle too.