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> 7.css is a CSS framework for building interface components that look like Windows 7. It is built on top of the GUI backbone of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.css. Just an absolutely lovely line of text.
Very nice. Does anybody else find it a bit striking how gracefully this look has aged? With a little bit of tuning it could feel pretty modern. Modern UI design could stand to take not just a few pages but the majority of the book from both the Windows 7 variant of Aero and the OS X 10.9 variant of Aqua, in my opinion. Legibility, information density, and communication of interactability and widget function have all…
I used Windows 7 in my formative years, so I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for it. That said, I really do think the Windows NT era had the best UI in terms of brute usability. Again, I love Aero's faux glass, cyan highlights, high gloss, etc... but it is indeed a lot of noise and I think it's a bit distracting.
Very nice. Does anybody else find it a bit striking how gracefully this look has aged? With a little bit of tuning it could feel pretty modern. Modern UI design could stand to take not just a few pages but the majority of the book from both the Windows 7 variant of Aero and the OS X 10.9 variant of Aqua, in my opinion. Legibility, information density, and communication of interactability and widget function have all…
I used Windows 7 in my formative years, so I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for it. That said, I really do think the Windows NT era had the best UI in terms of brute usability. Again, I love Aero's faux glass, cyan highlights, high gloss, etc... but it is indeed a lot of noise and I think it's a bit distracting.
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It can be more difficult to claim copyright over shapes and patterns than you think.
And somehow Tetris Company succeeded it..
Side note: the iOS version of Tetris is an ad and gambling ridden hellscape, and that's a licensed spinoff.
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I used Windows 7 in my formative years, so I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for it. That said, I really do think the Windows NT era had the best UI in terms of brute usability. Again, I love Aero's faux glass, cyan highlights, high gloss, etc... but it is indeed a lot of noise and I think it's a bit distracting.
The 95-like look (of which I think the 2K variant is best) does have a bit of an edge in terms of usability, but it also looks considerably more dated. A similarly legible theme from that era that I think time has been more kind to is Platinum, the theme used by Mac OS from System 7.6.1 through Mac OS 9.2.1. Any new UI design looking to incorporate Aero’s good bits would be smart to tone the look down a little.
On flat themes, I like Zukitre, which I modded the highlighting color to black instead of blue. It's the only usable theme I found not being either blinding light nor often unreadable dark. It has a grey neutral tone, something Apple understood for platinum if you worked on graphic design, video and photo editing, or as a journalist (the 99% of the Apple users in late 90's).
Ah yes the days of "aero ui". Sad to hear Apple designers are taking cues from _old_ windows designs now.
Very nice. Does anybody else find it a bit striking how gracefully this look has aged? With a little bit of tuning it could feel pretty modern. Modern UI design could stand to take not just a few pages but the majority of the book from both the Windows 7 variant of Aero and the OS X 10.9 variant of Aqua, in my opinion. Legibility, information density, and communication of interactability and widget function have all…
Also, they screwed up the start menu/screen search in windows 8 and it has sucked since then. :(
Every time I see something about windows7 coming up, I feel a little sad. 7 imo was the last good windows ms came up with. I remember upgrading to it was something worth bragging to your friends in school. There was so much excitement around it. After 7, something felt, broken, new features felt unnecessary, things got more user hostile, the magic, it was just gone!
Yeah. I feel like the main thing was it was the last version that still had essentially user-controlled updates. By default it would auto-update, but you could have it not do that, or have it download the updates but not install them until you decided to, and you could deselect individual updates and just skip them. I suspect this is linked to its era: it came out on the cusp of the trend of having everything autoupd…
I don't find it funny when it's bare metal! On my work laptop I put Windows to sleep 100% of the time, and restart for updates when I'm forced to with 3 hours notice before a mandatory reboot.
This battle with Windows doesn't even need to be happening! I am very good with updates and go looking for them in the settings without needing them to be pushed, at least on less hostile OSs! I run beta iOS on my old phone, and get a little disappointed when I see no changes required when running an update through apt or nix-env or whatever.
I highly recommend running virtualised Windows somewhere for the sanity preserving feeling of vengeful control :)