Yosemite looks terrible!

[sardo]

yosemite is hideous

This looks like something from the early eighties. Everything is flat and unimaginative. Looks like the only tools the designers had were a square and a straight edge. Apple should be embarrassed in presenting this as a new and fresh look.

As much as it is dull and uninspiring to look at it is only a minor issue compared to the increase in heat being generated by an apparent increase in cpu usage.

What have they done?????

 

[TheRainKing]

From this

To this

It kinda feels like we're going backwards..

 

[KALLT]

The first third-party apps are coming in as well and some updates are really depressing already. 1Password used to be such a well-designed app with lots of attention to detail, but their Yosemite update looks very poor. Almost no colour left, glitches to no end. It’s also a good example why flat design isn’t necessarily clean.

 

[arpi]

while yosemite is a new os, the look and feel is like a draft design. This is something should look like before the detailed work starts. Yet they release this crap design as new.

The legibility and contrast is a huge problem, and will be one. Probably is ok when you are 20 year old, but later it's just annoying.

The color choices are so bad, that even if you use a web safe 255 colors, you could pick better colors then these saturated ones.

The whole OS looks like a giant banner ad in an IE 6 page.

Sad.

Apple can do better then releasing draft quality design in their products...

 

[fisherking]

just started reading thru this thread. am surprised...i think the new dock KILLS the old 3d one (which i always thought was ugly).

the GUI looks great to me, the best-looking os x yet. it's running stable (at least, since beta 4), am hearing my fans less. it's fast, efficient...

i think 10.10 is the best os x since snow leopard. just my opinion (of course).

 

[ebika]

I like the translucent panels all over the UI. I don't like the design of the icons. They're all so stark, like they're screaming for attention all the time.

 

[ThisIsNotMe]

How the **** did Yosemite pass any sort of quality control/focus groups.
In a effort to minimize elements, Apple has made may things way too compact.
Folder icons...ugh!

 

[businezguy]

I'm going to add my support for Yosemite. I think it looks fantastic. They greatly simplified the appearance of the apps and dock which makes it look more elegant, yet they managed to keep functionality. I used to hate the sidebar, now I love it. I have weather over there, and also have easier access to the calculator app now. Not to mention, the overall look is so much better.

I also like the transparency with all of the apps. It makes the whole design seem more modern and somehow less invasive. It also gets out of the way of content, which I believe Ive said was one of their goals.

Sometimes less is more, and this is one of those cases.

 

[Mtmspa]

How about all the whiners go buy a chromebook or junk laptop that will have Windows 8. Or is bitching about something that isn't going to change just because you piss and moan on a message board more fun?

 

[joedec]

How about all the whiners go buy a chromebook or junk laptop that will have Windows 8. Or is bitching about something that isn't going to change just because you piss and moan on a message board more fun?

And this applies to this topic how? Oh wait you're "whining" about the content? Don't like it, don't read it, same logic really.

 

[ninethirty]

Everyone's entitled to their opinions, and a forum is specifically for expressing them.

For what it's worth, I've got a design/art direction background and work in UX, and ever since iOS7, Apple's made mistake after mistake as far as design is concerned. Their interpretation of "flat" is about as piss poor as could be.

OSX is ugly now. Where there was attention to detail, there is none now.

How about all the whiners go buy a chromebook or junk laptop that will have Windows 8. Or is bitching about something that isn't going to change just because you piss and moan on a message board more fun?

 

[Mtmspa]

Everyone's entitled to their opinions, and a forum is specifically for expressing them.

For what it's worth, I've got a design/art direction background and work in UX, and ever since iOS7, Apple's made mistake after mistake as far as design is concerned. Their interpretation of "flat" is about as piss poor as could be.

OSX is ugly now. Where there was attention to detail, there is none now.

Your background isn't worth anything to me and it is just your opinion.

 

[ThisIsNotMe]

Seriously, there are so many bugs and the UI is so hideous it look like a Linux build. LOL.

 

[munakib]

Yosomite most likely looks great on Retina displays but it looks piss poor on my Airs and the half baked design lang that Ive created really annoys me.

 

[iLLUMI]

So does everyone think it's pretty much crap looking on MBA?
Not sure if I want to upgrade until MBA goes Retina.

Seems like Yosemite borrowed a lot from Win Vista. That notification side bar with widgets reminds me of the old Vista. It was a cool idea, although Vista sucked so badly.

I guess some Aussies will be calling this version OSX Vegemite, because it looks like ......

 

[milk242]

Don't really like the UI of the new spotlight, preferred the minimalistic spotlight. Also the blues on the folder and apple icons are a little too bright imo.

 

[grahamperrin]

… look and feel is like a draft design. This is something should look like before the detailed work starts. Yet they release this crap design as new.

The legibility and contrast is a huge problem, and will be one. Probably is ok when you are 20 year old, but later it's just annoying.

The color choices are so bad, that even if you use a web safe 255 colors, you could pick better colors then these saturated ones. …

Sad.

Apple can do better then releasing draft quality design in their products...

If you think that the release is poor, consider what some other people wrote about the early pre-releases.

How about all the whiners go buy a chromebook or junk laptop that will have Windows 8. Or is bitching about something that isn't going to change just because you piss and moan on a message board more fun?

Your background isn't worth anything to me and it is just your opinion.

… that response puts Mtmspa on my ignore list. No longer a waste of space in this topic.

 

[Eithanius]

Can you substantiate those claims or are you just making stuff up off the top of your head?

I honestly don't see the point of these types of "defenses" of Yosemite. What are you hoping to accomplish? Do you seriously think you can convince someone who thinks it's UGLY that it's NOT ugly by saying other people have thought so about previous versions in the past??? There's ZERO logic there. I'm sure those people wouldn't have been appeased by such illogical arguments either. It's GREAT that you just LOVE Yosemite (and possibly every single thing Apple does based on most fans emotional defensive reactions on here that never seem to end). Go enjoy it. Spend all day worshiping it if that's what appeals to you. But don't think you'll suddenly make the world appear all rose-tinted to those that can plainly see for themselves that Johnny Ive has ZERO talent when it comes to making and/or directing ART.

Frankly, I've seen better interface artwork in the 1980s, which quite honestly is what Yosemite's GUI reminds me of, a 1980's flat, boring interface. Back then it was due to limited colors and CPU power being available. I'm going to guess that Yosemite won't save me any CPU cycles, though. Apple has had a way of bloating most OS X releases since Tiger (and yes Snow Leopard measured slower here than Leopard on my Macbook Pro also; some improvement that "optimization release" was. The only thing it saved was disk space by wiping out PPC code and support (Thanks to Apple for artificially shortening the life of the last PPC Mac Pros. A lot of people appreciated that as well). I'm not a big fan of most things Apple does. It is only the fact that Windows has been historically a messy register-based disaster of crashes and malware that I've stuck with Apple. It's certainly not been for the outstanding gaming support Apple has provided gaming developers and the top notch GPUs and drivers they've provided us with, that's for certain.

What "defenses" of Yosemite...? What the hell are you babbling about...?

Which part of my sentence indicates that I'm defending Yosemite...? Is that what you meant...? It's a sarcasm meant to point out how low Apple had to stoop in terms of quality now they had to offer OS X releases for free just to shut us detractors, just like what they did when they give away Puma to fix Cheetah...

HELLO...!!! I'm a staunch Snow Leopard supporter for crying out loud... And I'm mocking Apple for what they've become...!

 

[Bobby dazzler]

Hi OldGuyTom,

I'm with you on this.
I'm not a developer. I'm just a consumer, so I have an opinion coming right from the shop floor - as it were.

Yosemite looks childish, Fisher Price, "butt ugly"...whatever.

I'm going to hang fire on updating to Yosemite just to see what hidden surprise bugs it has too.

 

[grahamperrin]

… What the hell …

Gently, please.

In a topic as long and naturally contentious as this it is sometimes easy to misread/misinterpret a thing.

I have misinterpreted on probably dozens of occasions … just lucky that most of my misinterpretations don't make it to the page – on most issues, I think better after sleeping on stuff – and if confronted gently about a mistake, I always aim to apologise. (And I know, I'm sometimes not gentle. Pot, kettle, black!)

Just a thought …

 

[R3k]

i think 10.10 is the best os x since snow leopard. just my opinion (of course).

Completely agree.

 

[eskimogenius]

Anyone getting animation lag? In places like System Preferences?

 

[Typswif2fingers]

I am glad that Apple did not go as mental on OS X as they did on iOS...

To be quite honest I am breathing a sigh of relief. Yes.. it looks crap.. But, it could've been much, much worse.

When Sir Jony redesigned the iOS there were those images floating on the interweb with OS X looking like iOS.. At least Apple did not go as far into Sir's turquoise-coloured mind with the OS X and made it as screwed up as the iOS is...

In any case, in the best traditions of Apple, they will be back to the skeumorphworld in 5-10 years and will be telling us just how revolutionary they are...

Need to give them time... Sir Jony must get all of Forstall out of his head before he realises that he should stick to hardware and leave software to people who know about it...

 

[Eithanius]

Anyone getting animation lag? In places like System Preferences?

Yes... Everyone gets it...

I just don't understand how can Apple which championed perfectionism roll out low-quality product like this...

 

[n-evo]

From this

Image

To this

Image

It kinda feels like we're going backwards...

I always thought the 3D Dock was always over te top, almost Vista-like in appearance. Glad to see it go again.