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Third-Party Mac Icons Reimagined in OS X Yosemite Style

Merit badges anyone?

They look exactly like Boy Scout Merit Badges!

All you are missing is the sash to display them!
 
Nope, do not want.

Flat is ugly and is a fad. Huge step backwards in my opinion.

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QCassidy352 said:
IMO, there's a happy medium to be struck between "felt" in Game Center or "ripped edges" in Calendar and this cartoony mess.
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You nailed it. 100%. Right there.

This whole flat fad is going way too far. It needs to be stopped.
 
Hmm icons that others don't like that Apple didn't make. Better smash my mac in a fit of rage
 
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PalacePlayers said:
Agreed. This is crap.

Way over the top.
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I'll second that... total and complete crap. Looks like something Bill Gates would create.... SLOPPY & Boring!!!!!

I don't know why everyone is so hot for the IOS7 interface, which looks a bit like a dressed up copy of some of the stuff MS was doing. Personally, I'm not digging any of it. I want depth and some rich color....something my eyes are happy to look at... the first versions of IOS 7 were too hot, hurt my eyes to look at and would cause major eye strain. Who in the heck thought it was a good idea to put thin white text on a light colored background surrounded by hot pastels???? I wonder if Jobs would have let it out the door were he still alive. This cruddy rendition by whatever the artists' name is just looks like something a 3rd grader did with zero artistic talent..... ugh.
 
iRock1 said:
Oh please, don't start giving ideas to Apple. Following this frigging absurd path, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they come out with something like this in a few years:

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Those 3 little dots up there at the window bar: too much colour!

This should suffice: O X -

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PowerCD said:
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People! Have a close look at this image! It sais: "RAM: 32 MB" - that's MEGA-Byte, not GIGA-Byte!

And run on a i486...

Oh, those were the days... ;)
 
Is this just a steep ladder ?

every OS change like iOS 7, 10.10. new icons.... developers must rush to re-design their *new* otherwise it would look out of place....


OSX 11 will be different again....

lol.. OMG,, so cartoon-like..., It's worse than XP.

even iOS 7 is better..
 
I like the iWork ones and the Twitter one. For some reason I've always had something against the icon for Twitter for Mac. I don't think it's as elegant as it could be.
 
Ive: "For OS X 10.11 we simply removed all of these cumbersome flat icons and replaced them with Siri-activated commands. No more icons, no more dock. This is the future" :D
 
Yosemite Fonts

I've been thinking about this for the past several days, especially in my own attempts to recreate the new look for some of the Yosemite icons (specifically the AppStore and Launchpad icons).

I'd be interested if there is a generic background icon available, or perhaps a tutorial to create the general look and feel of the new icons.
 
The problem with all the flat is that human eyesight has evolved to look for 3 dimensional objects. DEPTH PERCEPTION is a KEY ability in eyesight. So looking at a flat monitor for hours defeats our spatial perception. Having some 3 dimensional cues such as round buttons, shadows, and levels of depth or edges that can be discerned is important in actually being able to see icons and windows as "objects". Flat UI is an offense to human eyesight IMO, and is harder to look at. Yosemite preview just hurts me to look. Aqua 1.0 was way too much, but by 10.8 I think things are fine. Skueomorphism is not great per se, but flat for sake of flat is not a good UI/UX concept.
Sadly I doubt Apple is going to change the course of this (titanic) UI change. Ugh, the HIG book is sinking.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
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.
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Nah, I meant splash screens like with all the old pro apps (FCP, Photoshop, etc.) and how they used to be... small, and they were really just something to look at while the application was loaded.

For example..

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And of course...

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Got Installed - Just a few more needed

Go them all installed looking great just got a few more to complete my dock... But then in Finder > Applications > there are a lot :)

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So for my dock I need TeamSpeak, OnLive, TestFlight, Application Loader, Xcode, TheFaFClan Messenger, Audi Spirit Messenger, Ford Spirit Messenger, The Motion Picture Review Messenger, Console Network Messenger, Digital Mayhem Messenger, Folder, Trash


How come no Trash Can icon was provided?

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MacSince1990 said:
Nah, I meant splash screens like with all the old pro apps (FCP, Photoshop, etc.) and how they used to be... small, and they were really just something to look at while the application was loaded.

For example..

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Those are pointless and irritating. When I'm launching a few applications at once, I don't want them all to crowd my desktop with useless images. Bounce a few times if you must, but when you show me something, please be the application I'm launching.
 
What a shame, that after the evolution of the most beautiful computer OS, we've ended up with a "flat" fad driven monstrosity. Take a look at this picture folks, in a few years we'll look back at this, longing for the return of true Apple design. Say goodbye to the beautiful dock, with distinctive shaped icons that pop with subtle reflections. Say goodbye to subtle tones, visual clarity and a general sense of order and maturity. Say goodbye to well designed type that is natural and easy to read, instead welcome the use of deceptive letter shapes, poor spacing and awful finials, and get ready to be unable to distinguish between I and l

Instead, welcome the use of dull and uninspired icons that all look the same. Be ready for a fisher price colour scheme with icons that aren't even proportionally sized. Just look at those elegant folder icons! Lovely and obtrusively large, with a wonderful preschool colour!

I certainly will be sticking with Mavericks for as long as I can.
 

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Hephaestus said:
What a shame, that after the evolution of the most beautiful computer OS, we've ended up with a "flat" fad driven monstrosity. Take a look at this picture folks, in a few years we'll look back at this, longing for the return of true Apple design. Say goodbye to the beautiful dock, with distinctive shaped icons that pop with subtle reflections. Say goodbye to subtle tones, visual clarity and a general sense of order and maturity. Say goodbye to well designed type that is natural and easy to read, instead welcome the use of deceptive letter shapes, poor spacing and awful finials, and get ready to be unable to distinguish between I and l

Instead, welcome the use of dull and uninspired icons that all look the same. Be ready for a fisher price colour scheme with icons that aren't even proportionally sized. Just look at those elegant folder icons! Lovely and obtrusively large, with a wonderful preschool colour!

I certainly will be sticking with Mavericks for as long as I can.
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interesting to see them next to each other like that. basically the same frame but populated with these dreadful new icons. ive and co are a tired bunch
 
Persian Apple said:
awful reimagination. why do all the icons have to circular?
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We wanted circle icons, it was not created to be a theme for Yosemite the first few people posted icon sets with "iOS 7 themes" then it was turned into round icons, I love my dock. All of the icons are round and a lot of people have liked the round looks.
 
Speaking of "Lemmings"... Companies feeling that they should change their apps icons to match Apple's style in the OS de Jour everyone's talking about, instead of reflecting their own independent corporate style.
 
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