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What do you think about OS X 10.10?
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Thoughts on Yosemite UI
Apple really put some thought into this one. Seems like they learned from the design mistakes in the iOS 7 design (ugly icons and overly bright white interface). I think the icons in Yosemite look fabulous and clean. And you can't say that they've completely eliminated skeuomorphism in the OS X (look at the new Contacts app icon and the Folder icons in Finder). They've kept it where it makes sense.
Dark mode is another good feature for people who are not a fan of white interface. Also, the whites aren't too bad. There are light forms of grey here and there as well. It's a good balance - the usage of white interface doesn't seem as dramatic going from Mavericks to Yosemite as it did for iOS 6 to iOS 7.
Overall, the design is just right. Although, I would like it if they desaturated the folder icons a bit.
Apple really put some thought into this one. Seems like they learned from the design mistakes in the iOS 7 design (ugly icons and overly bright white interface). I think the icons in Yosemite look fabulous and clean. And you can't say that they've completely eliminated skeuomorphism in the OS X (look at the new Contacts app icon and the Folder icons in Finder). They've kept it where it makes sense.
Dark mode is another good feature for people who are not a fan of white interface. Also, the whites aren't too bad. There are light forms of grey here and there as well. It's a good balance - the usage of white interface doesn't seem as dramatic going from Mavericks to Yosemite as it did for iOS 6 to iOS 7.
Overall, the design is just right. Although, I would like it if they desaturated the folder icons a bit.
Mind my eye-balls
The white interface looks 10-sharp on the white i-Devices! But as a graphics-peoples, I like to have the grey tones all over my Mac's interface. Many applications UI were redesigned for it. So much more relaxed for my eye-balls.
Why not just auto-adjust them in DarkMode as well?
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The white interface looks 10-sharp on the white i-Devices! But as a graphics-peoples, I like to have the grey tones all over my Mac's interface. Many applications UI were redesigned for it. So much more relaxed for my eye-balls.
Why not just auto-adjust them in DarkMode as well?
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I love the new design. It's very fresh. Already running a hell of a lot better than the first DP of Mavericks. I'll also be buying my first iPhone this fall so I'm pretty excited about the new continuity features.
That's a good point. But they'll have to auto-adjust the color tones of other icons in the Finder and Desktop as well to maintain consistency. When switching from normal mode to dark mode, only the color of the folder icons changing (while the other surrounding icons being unaffected) may look awkward and not go well together.
But then again, how many "other" icons are there? Most of them show previews of documents, images, PDFs, Movies, projects, etc... It wouldn't make sense for these to go through any color change because they're showing a preview of the file. So in that sense it's allowable for the folder icons to change their color tone with dark mode.
I honestly hate the new UI. It looks like OS X 10.3
I like what they did transitioning from ios6 to ios7, but not this.
I am not really impressed with the new features.
If apple wants me to buy a mac again, they need to try harder, I'll be sticking with Windows for now.
I like what they did transitioning from ios6 to ios7, but not this.
I am not really impressed with the new features.
If apple wants me to buy a mac again, they need to try harder, I'll be sticking with Windows for now.
Not impressed with the new features? Cmon. What did you expect?
And just to add my point of view. Apple could completely destroy OS X to make me switch to Windows again. This time they improved it hugely.
The design of the OS is subjective but I like it.
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I really like the new UI. It's a bit rough around the edges and that no doubt as we move through the DPs the UI will be cleaned up.
I'm still not liking the new Safari UI though, I hope they tweak it - the menu bar doesn't look right to me.
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They introduced some lovely new features in WWDC.
This makes Yosemite quite difficult for me because I mostly dislike the UI changes and it will be painful for me to get used to them. Whilst I know this is the first DP and it understandably lacks polish, many things in the new design direction worry me. I could compile a long list but no one reads them anyway.
The new design lacks a certain harmony and professionality that is evident in Mavericks and earlier. Bright colours, transparency, thin-and-light text, thin icons, iOS-isms (like the tiny Safari "URL" field) where they don't necessarily make sense...
People keep reassuring it's a DP and many things will change. Remember how everyone told the same about the iOS 7 DPs and yet few things (apart from squishing actual bugs and implementing missing features) actually changed.
I'll promise I won't bang my head against the wall too much because of this, even though things don't look so good right now. I'm excited to see how things develop from here on. And of course there's the fact that no one is forcing me to upgrade – Mavericks will continue to serve me just as wonderfully as it does now.
This makes Yosemite quite difficult for me because I mostly dislike the UI changes and it will be painful for me to get used to them. Whilst I know this is the first DP and it understandably lacks polish, many things in the new design direction worry me. I could compile a long list but no one reads them anyway.
The new design lacks a certain harmony and professionality that is evident in Mavericks and earlier. Bright colours, transparency, thin-and-light text, thin icons, iOS-isms (like the tiny Safari "URL" field) where they don't necessarily make sense...
People keep reassuring it's a DP and many things will change. Remember how everyone told the same about the iOS 7 DPs and yet few things (apart from squishing actual bugs and implementing missing features) actually changed.
I'll promise I won't bang my head against the wall too much because of this, even though things don't look so good right now. I'm excited to see how things develop from here on. And of course there's the fact that no one is forcing me to upgrade – Mavericks will continue to serve me just as wonderfully as it does now.
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I have a feeling I'll like Yosemite better than I like Mavericks... I still believe that Snow Leopard was the best OS X version made
Oops. Why didn't I see your post before replying to this thread? Oh well. Some good can come out of this thread anyway...
Windows 7 is astoundingly stable. This is because MS finally did automated test against Win 7 code in an effort to fix drivers and found bugs that have existed since Win 3.11. If I had to use Windows, I'd use Win 7. The good news is I don't have to use Windows. Stable or not, there is no way I want to live with: The Windows Registry, Viruses, Almost Daily Updates, Spaghetti Organization with dlls, registry, ini files and unexpected interaction between unrelated programs, reboot to enable/disable capslock (are you kidding?). There is no way I want to live without: Finder with tabs, Quick Look, A real Unix Terminal, Programs run as who you are logged in rather than with admin rights by default, Apple ecosystem including: Photostream, iPhoto, Contacts, iCal, App Store auto updates, iCloud sync between my Mac and my iThings.
There was a brief time I was whining rather loudly about Mavericks. In fact I was routinely including snarky remarks with my crash log submissions to Apple engineering: "Can I go back to Snow Leopard?" Then I decided to do a fresh install so I could move from the 750 GB HDD that came with my MBP to a 750 GB SSD. It was particularly painless as I also used Migration Assistant and nothing "bad" came over from my previously upgraded OSX install. I also decided to archive 140,000 of the 160,000 emails in my gmail inbox. Ok I'm a packrat. That was the last time I saw instability. No more mail.app randomly crashing. No more beachballs. So I know for a FACT that Mavericks (and presumably Yosemite) can be every bit as stable as Snow Leopard. Perhaps a fresh install is required to get there.
I was hoping they'd redo every part of the OS, like iOS 7.
Outside of the Finder windows, application menu bars and radio buttons, it's the same old OS X.
Hopefully they refine it more as the Previews progress.
I really love the new UI and I think that Mavericks looks really bad. Why?
Mountain Lion had its own style with "skeuomorphism". There was canvas in a lot of places across OS: Notification Center, Mission Control, Login Screen etc. It had its own specific style.
With Mavericks Apple has removed canvas, skeuomorphism and left only "aluminium" (aka everything's grey on black). Mavericks is just tasteless and boring in my opinion.
Yosemite has its own style again, just like ML. It's inobtrusive and beautiful.
Of course you can't hope that everybody's going to love it, but as it happens, most do (look at the poll).
Mountain Lion had its own style with "skeuomorphism". There was canvas in a lot of places across OS: Notification Center, Mission Control, Login Screen etc. It had its own specific style.
With Mavericks Apple has removed canvas, skeuomorphism and left only "aluminium" (aka everything's grey on black). Mavericks is just tasteless and boring in my opinion.
Yosemite has its own style again, just like ML. It's inobtrusive and beautiful.
Of course you can't hope that everybody's going to love it, but as it happens, most do (look at the poll).
I went there and didn't see it as an option. I went to system prefs and only saw handoff.
Sorry, but that's not true.
A year from now, newer applications will only feature the newer design. Developers will also stop supporting the older branch of their software that featured the older design.
For reference, many developers who were committed to preserving Snow Leopard compatibility have since stopped doing so - how many are going to support two different user interfaces?