Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Which Finder window do you prefer?

Which Finder window do you prefer?

  • Sequoia

  • Tahoe

Results are only viewable after voting.
The Google/Apple UI divergence is really interesting. Google's betting on youthfulness, vibrant color, aggressive font sizing and contrast. Apple is aspiring to something "quiet," calm, and subtle, with a few dynamic flourishes.

Apple could be better attuned to what people want from their devices now, but they're not executing perfectly. Legibility issues were flagged immediately. Meanwhile, Google advertises that they've reduced visual recognition time for key UI elements.
 
  • Like
Reactions: noblesoul117, mulholland13, Evil Lair and 1 other person
turbineseaplane said:
A user on Mastodon mocked up a better alternative to what Apple has put forth thus far in the beta.

Thoughts?

I think it's much better.

c38016936d9ea2e6.jpeg
Click to expand...
A million times better. Clearer and readable. I can’t believe that 100s of engineers worked on the Liquid Glass design and a single designer draws better in a week. :(
 
  • Like
  • Love
  • Sad
Reactions: maxoakland, allan.nyholm, Slix and 6 others
Sowelu said:
I like this... very chill. Reminds me of some early Thievery Corporation and Tosca (a project of Dorfmeister of the great Kruder & Dorfmeister duo).
Click to expand...

I held-Balcony to Thievery Corp. Live in ATL three years ago . . . they performed even better than in-studio :)

Funki Porcini's ("Long Road" is from their 'Headphone Sex' albom) early stuff is sublime.

As for the Finder interface . . . it'll be refined before long.

This "floating-bubble" thing just doesn't really jibe with the clean aesthetic we've come to expect of a FM.

g*d-forbid AAPL chooses to move towards the way of the Windows 10 Explorer "I am so bland, I blend into every other window so much you can't make heads:tails" motif.

They'll get the Sidebar dis-continuity thing sorted-out :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sowelu
acrakes said:
The Google/Apple UI divergence is really interesting. Google's betting on youthfulness, vibrant color, aggressive font sizing and contrast. Apple is aspiring to something "quiet," calm, and subtle, with a few dynamic flourishes.

Apple could be better attuned to what people want from their devices now, but they're not executing perfectly. Legibility issues were flagged immediately. Meanwhile, Google advertises that they've reduced visual recognition time for key UI elements.
Click to expand...

i'm not sure id describe liquid glass as "quiet"
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: maxoakland, 01cowherd, splifingate and 2 others
splifingate said:
I held-Balcony to Thievery Corp. Live in ATL three years ago . . . they performed even better than in-studio :)

Funki Porcini's ("Long Road" is from their 'Headphone Sex' albom) early stuff is sublime.
Click to expand...
Sounds amazing! Saw them at the Beacon many years ago in NYC and yeah, they're petty amazing live. Def will check out more Funki Porcini.
 
  • Like
Reactions: splifingate
nathansz said:
Sequoia:


View attachment 2518956

Tahoe:


View attachment 2520482

note: these are identical windows of the same size, with every option enabled.

this is one quarter of the screen as tiled by amethyst with 10 pixels of window padding, dock hidden, menubar enabled, 1728x1117
Click to expand...
Tahoe looks like that cartoonish, bloated, iOS-like abomination? Good to know so I won’t even consider upgrading from Sequoia.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AAPLGeek, CasualFanboy and !!!
Donkey Man said:
Tahoe looks like that cartoonish, bloated, iOS-like abomination? Good to know so I won’t even consider upgrading from Sequoia.
Click to expand...
eventually we'll all get used to whatever tahoe looks like when it's finally released (just as we've always adapted). meanwhile, i find it amusing that ppl won't update because of the look of the OS, regardless of how well it may run 🤷
 
  • Like
Reactions: iBookmaster
fisherking said:
eventually we'll all get used to whatever tahoe looks like when it's finally released (just as we've always adapted). meanwhile, i find it amusing that ppl won't update because of the look of the OS, regardless of how well it may run 🤷
Click to expand...

for me it's not just the "look"

the problem is that the new UI is that it is distracting and steals screen real estate. the gimmicky effects cause the navigation elements to literally overshadow actual content

every new update I try actually working in it for a few hours and it is always such a relief to go back to sequoia

it runs just fine sure, but no noticeable difference from sequoia, so neither better nor worse. this is not surprising since the entire Tahoe update is almost entirely a cosmetic overhaul other than the spotlight stuff, which still doesn't do enough to replace Alfred so not much use to me.

point being there is no compelling reason to update, but the UI makes it compelling to NOT update
 
  • Like
  • Love
Reactions: AAPLGeek, cigz, SaMMyS and 6 others
nathansz said:
for me it's not just the "look"

the problem is that the new UI is that it is distracting and steals screen real estate. the gimmicky effects cause the navigation elements to literally overshadow actual content

every new update I try actually working in it for a few hours and it is always such a relief to go back to sequoia

it runs just fine sure, but no noticeable difference from sequoia, so neither better nor worse. this is not surprising since the entire Tahoe update is almost entirely a cosmetic overhaul other than the spotlight stuff, which still doesn't do enough to replace Alfred so not much use to me.

point being there is no compelling reason to update, but the UI makes it compelling to NOT update
Click to expand...
it's still a work-in-progress (but you know that already). and i don't see any less screen real estate than i did in sequoia. tahoe is also easier to spell 🤣. but point taken, and the great thing is... we can do what we want 👍
 
fisherking said:
eventually we'll all get used to whatever tahoe looks like when it's finally released (just as we've always adapted). meanwhile, i find it amusing that ppl won't update because of the look of the OS, regardless of how well it may run 🤷
Click to expand...
MacOS has been running worse, not better, after each release - go check macperformanceguide.com for an idea of how deep the rot goes. The fact that not even superficial looks are good anymore is the negative icing on the cake.
 
  • Like
Reactions: CasualFanboy
Donkey Man said:
MacOS has been running worse, not better, after each release - go check macperformanceguide.com for an idea of how deep the rot goes. The fact that not even superficial looks are good anymore is the negative icing on the cake.
Click to expand...
not for me (& not for the people i work with, mostly sonoma or sequioa). tahoe is, so far, my best mac experience ever (pretty great for a beta, altho the macbook runs a bit warm, typical of a beta).

it's been fast, and stable. my apps work, and i can work.
 
Donkey Man said:
MacOS has been running worse, not better, after each release - go check macperformanceguide.com for an idea of how deep the rot goes. The fact that not even superficial looks are good anymore is the negative icing on the cake.
Click to expand...

well that sure was weird

something that maybe used to be a tech site that has transformed in to a homophobic far right blog?
 
  • Wow
  • Love
  • Like
Reactions: SaMMyS, Sowelu, turbineseaplane and 1 other person
I've been using Tahoe on a 24" iMac, and still have Sequoia on my other Mac. I spend a lot of time in Finder and my goodness the UI is killing me in Tahoe. Safari too. Something about Sequoia just feels so clean and sharp and Tahoe all these floating UI elements, app icon redesigns having a bit of blurry look to them, ughhh. Pains me every time I use the iMac to do a bit of work.
 
  • Love
  • Like
Reactions: turbineseaplane and nathansz
I'm not to happy with sharing the same first name as Alan Dye.

macOS Tahoe looks even more white and difficult to read than when Big Sur entered the stage.. just add a touch of grey - like with Yosemite.. what the hell is all this GUI updating for.. Mavericks, Yosemite, Catalina and Mojave was great.

Just build on that. jeez. Menu bar heighten, icon rounding, UI slightly adjusting. Not this gimmicky looking UI
 
  • Love
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: SaMMyS, turbineseaplane and CasualFanboy
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back