It feels like this entire design is simply meant to make Catalyst apps not look as crappy and out of place. Now they can just dump iOS apps like Messages and Maps onto the Mac and not really have to do any work fixing the UI.
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The new app icons are horrific and poorly designed
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remember when you could tell if an element was clickable just by looking at it?
This thread is laughable. Folks getting all worked up because an icon looks different. They need to get back to work instead of spending all their time finding fault with every.little.thing.
Paying attention to the little details used to be what Apple prided itself on.
They still do. If folks don't like what does, they can go elsewhere.
Some might be but Federighi mentioned the new icon depth direction in the keynote so that’s definitely staying.
Or they can give feedback to improve things.
its an abomination that they are rounded squares
what in the HELL
looks so awkward on the macOS dock
what in the HELL
looks so awkward on the macOS dock
It's because you have no taste, and your perspective in aesthetic and design must be trash. People can think these icons are trash, don't waste your time in this thread and try to make people think otherwise or defend it, you need to get back to work, so go on now
Besides the battery icon, the asymmetry between the left and right margins truly bothers me:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who was noticeably disgusted by the app icon designs. For me, the thing I hate most is the shadowing that they’ve employed. As others have mentioned, the biggest offenders of this are FaceTime, Messages, App Store, Quicktime, and Mail. I don’t mind the other UI elements as much as others do, but Alan Dye seriously dropped the ball on an important new chapter for macOS. Are we going to have twenty years of...this? It’s as if they didn’t learn anything from the reception of iOS 7. Shame, Alan. Shame.
Serious question: Has anyone running the developer beta confirmed that you can still manually swap out app icons with, say, Catalina-styled icons?
Serious question: Has anyone running the developer beta confirmed that you can still manually swap out app icons with, say, Catalina-styled icons?
I will use a typical answer for such kind of “message” -
Start your own tech company, dominate certain part of the market, and THEN you can design your own icons.
P.S. Try to be more positive. Go out.
So your message is ::: company makes something awful, consumers gets on knees and sucks company's Big Sur regardless of how bad they made a product, consumer can't criticize cuz consumer doesn't make product.
smh lol that's a sheep mindset imo
This MacOS UI update feels like designed for iPad /Touch Screen rather than traditional computer.
May be next Mac is a Touch Screen.
May be next Mac is a Touch Screen.
I actually learned to appreciate the finer side of icons and UI by perusing this thread, so thanks. I get to watch Windows 10 UI and icons all day. Vomit.
Translation: Shut up and consume.
Generally the redesign of macOS is fine. Only the icons are bad. Really bad, to be honest. Apple has to rework a lot of them and then everything would be fine for me. The good thing is: Reworking icons isn‘t an impossible task. So let us hope for the best.
Well, you have a choice - revert to a better product. Apple competition is well known.
BTW: I admire how you all involved in this thread are really so esthetics driven - you will give up functionality over a minor form disagreement. Really I learn new things every day.
Apple’s target was / is to deliver both and until now they were also very good at it.
To be fair to the intern, Adobe didn't finish porting the first ɑ port of Photoshop to ARM until a week ago.
Oh the irony.
For me, I kind of prefer the new direction that's being taken - I never liked the iOS 7/Yosemite-style UI (it seemed to me simple, unrefined and with too much white). (I thought that the UI was best developed under Scott Forstall (and Steve Jobs))
Making the icons rounded squares was the best option in the long run. With iOS apps coming to macOS, and even before then, with a lot of devs not bothering to make a non-rounded icon for their macOS apps, we effectively had a mix of rounded and non-rounded icons. Now all of them will be rounded squares, and they even kept the option for making them stick out of the masking (like the Xcode, GarageBand and other icons).
Some less-used app icons look hideous (QuickTime, Keychain...) but they'll probably change before release. Most prominent icons probably won't.
Some less-used app icons look hideous (QuickTime, Keychain...) but they'll probably change before release. Most prominent icons probably won't.
gmanist has returned. I remember your videos from years back.
Indeed, the icons should've just been copied from iOS for consistency and they look much better. This half-baked skeuomorphism but still flat is horrid.