Which Finder window do you prefer?

[acrakes]

Can they put the “traffic lights” on their own glass pill and bump the sidebar down a little

 

[basdeninard]

My lord, this is painfully bad in so many ways

Apple has truly lost its marbles.

 

[PotentPeas]

What is that black stuff gathering at the top like burnt roasted marshmallows?

Your guess is as good as mine.

It took me a minute to realize what I am looking at. That black shade appears to be an indication that there is stuff "above" that is out of view because the "pane" has been scrolled down.

Looks gross. I do hope they have some refinements to put in before the public release. The bottom status bar seems like something that obviously needs attention, but the layout all around just looks like a mess. I'm not too worried about them making less usable space in the window (I keep my Finder windows pretty large) — though I'd prefer it if they didn't — but, having the top button controls "on top of" other stuff is just yucky.

 

[turbineseaplane]

It took me a minute to realize what I am looking at.

Always a great sign for a UI design
/s

😂

 

[stevemiller]

Your guess is as good as mine.

This is rough

"we need to extend your content into the toolbar area so you can see more of your content....
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also we had to make your content look like this to make that work."

 

[SilverSpooned]

I prefer Tahoe to Sequoia. By a longshot.

 

[turbineseaplane]

80/20 in favor of Sequoia after a few days of polling.

Quite an indictment on the Tahoe "design".

 

[Sowelu]

I prefer Tahoe to Sequoia. By a longshot.

Taste is subjective, of course, and there is no right or wrong answer here, but care to share what it is about the Tahoe version that you like over Sequoia, and by a long-shot?

 

[QuarterSwede]

It's remarkably "incorrect" to have the stoplight icon cluster on a floating window.
That gives the understandable impression that the close button (red), for instance, would close the floating sidebar it's within, as opposed to the entire window.

This design is so bad -- on so many levels.
They have people doing this who are totally inept as actual interface designers.

I mean, it’s still headed by “lets just hide everything behind gestures” Alan Dye … the guy designs pretty UIs with hard to discover tools and functions.

 

[Sowelu]

Apple's design inspiration for those ultra-rounded corners and the floating menu buttons and traffic lights placed near them to get that perfectly mismatched and unaligned curve or radius effect that may cause slight anxiety:

 

[SilverSpooned]

Taste is subjective, of course, and there is no right or wrong answer here, but care to share what it is about the Tahoe version that you like over Sequoia, and by a long-shot?

I like it because it is the first major redesign of MacOS in years. I like the Liquid glass display since it reminds me a lot of Windows 7.