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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.
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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.
Windows 11 beta 1 I think had a mix of aero and windows 10s start menu and felt two to three times speedier than win10. I wonder what happened to ditch the transparency
most likely.
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…
> With a little bit of tuning it could feel pretty modern. This little bit of tuning is called Shine 2.0 and is still the most modern desktop user interface, even though it was published in 2010: https://www.deviantart.com/zainadeel/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windo...
https://web.archive.org/web/20140511174529/http://www.devian...
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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.
The default theme from QTCurve and a good color scheme. 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 i…
Modern day “light mode” would benefit from taking notes. The surge in demand for dark mode lines up pretty cleanly with the advent of the stark white themes that the flat UI epidemic ushered in.
The checkboxes doesn’t look quite right on iOS
Great work and idea! How can I use it without having tailwindcss changing all css?
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…
The last dialog looks crazily realistic. Is it possible to distinguish it from a real OS dialog without trying to move it? It looks awfully practical for phishing.
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…
What's bizarre is not seeing any mention of Windows Vista, when it laid the foundation and had most of these design aspects and elements people fawn about.