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Notes for UI designers who have lost their way

rampancy

rampancy

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B S Magnet said:
I’ve made mention of this elsewhere on here, but there’s much about Aqua’s semi-flattened final evolution with the Snow Leopard UI which, to this day, remains the best of nearly every aspect of using a Mac.

The other stable place in Mac OS X/macOS’s UI is the honed Marble UI/UX in Sierra/High Sierra (though I do use a utility to change UI text from San Francisco back to Lucida Grande — the latter being easier to glance at and read in both regular and hidpi displays).
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What, no love for the glorious Brushed Metal Finder? :D
 
B S Magnet

B S Magnet

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rampancy said:
What, no love for the glorious Brushed Metal Finder? :D
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I’ve no love for brushed metal, whether as skeuomorph or physical item. I associate the brushed metal aesthetic with deeply traditional, American fixtures for things like door knobs, finials, and ceiling fans (typically with hues like “antique bronze”, “brushed nickel”, and “brass”). My home features a lot of primary hues and influence from the Memphis Group — because life’s far too short to have drab surroundings you end up seeing every single day.

That said, I do love frosted and anodized metals, particularly so with bright hues — hence my red iPod nanos and also still having a red Handspring Visor Edge in my collection.

Amethyst1 said:
UNO for teh win! :D
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Or just use the Liger (“Final Like Leopard v8.0”) theme with ShapeShifter!

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