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Yosemite looks great!

coldjeanzzz said:
What do you mean the font issues have been ironed out? Did they finally make it smoother and easier to read?
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People should be happy about the font change because that's the surest sign Apple is moving towards retina displays across all products.
 
Rogifan said:
People should be happy about the font change because that's the surest sign Apple is moving towards retina displays across all products.
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"People should be happy about an asinine, fashion-first GUI change because it'll allow them to buy a new computer with a more capable screen at full price"
 
pickaxe said:
"People should be happy about an asinine, fashion-first GUI change because it'll allow them to buy a new computer with a more capable screen at full price"
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Perhaps people should be happy that cynics everywhere will poo-poo anything that attempts to advance technology and the user experience beyond the status quo.
 
MistrSynistr said:
I'm actually a Graphic/Web Designer (as well as Photographer) and the new design, to me, is awesome.

I seriously cannot wait for the Public Beta to install and play with. It's amazing how blah the old design looks compared to it. Very dull, seems 2002'ish.

When glancing over the screen shot thread, all I can picture in my mind is friends over who have no familiarity with Apple OSX or computers asking me what that awesome layout is.
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Odd you should state that since the "new dock", etc. is straight out of OS X circa 2002.
 
colourfastt said:
Odd you should state that since the "new dock", etc. is straight out of OS X circa 2002.
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The whole OS looks dated to me now that I have actually used it. I can't see how real graphic designers can like it. Yeah, it's somewhat flat, but there are so many exaggerated gradients that go against rules of good design.
 
grahamperrin said:
Yosemite helps me to realise the beauty of Mavericks.
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I don't know. Apple does have a way of making their previous UI instantly look old-fashioned when they come up with something new. The thing is, personally I'm more concerned with usability rather than looks (that's what I'm telling myself away... 😛 ). If the beauty of a UI actually serves to help me more easily 'parse' the UI then that's good (in my opinion, Mavericks does so in spades using different shades,gradients,sculpted virtual buttons etc. in order to clearly structure and separate UI from content), but if it's merely superfluous eye candy that only serves to distract (how much of that aspect is actually present in Mavericks' UI, I'd only be able to say with a little more distance) , then I think the design should be reduced to simpler elements, as Yosemite appears to attempt. I'm not sure how successful it is actually going to be in that regard, that is to visually simplify without getting rid of helpful affordances, and although I'm more than a little skeptical about the benefit of all of the additional translucency I'm willing to give all of that a chance (after all, it's too late to substantially change anything at this point anyway, and at least they didn't take away the button shapes …– I feared much worse after iOS 7, and I managed to mostly get used to that one). I'm pretty sure Yosemite is going to look beautiful, and I'm hopeful that usability-wise it will be (at least) on the same level as Mavericks as well.

<- sorry for this mess of a paragraph...
 
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