I love the way the thumbnails for each year change with Apple’s brand typography from the era. The one thing I would change is pre-1984: Apple started using Garamond with the introduction of the Macintosh; I would use either Motter Tektura (from the old logo) or Univers condensed (used in Apple II print materials) for 1977-1983.
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#42Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.
the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...
The 10.4 version and especially the 10.9 version of Aqua was basically perfect in my eyes… they had dimension and contrast without being overbearing and were bright and cheery without being blinding. I know people are fond of the 10.5 and 10.6 Aqua but I found its darker grey window chrome a bit too dreary looking.
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#43My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…
Just to confirm, are you the person the changed the Preview PDF text selection in newer macOS versions? o_0
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#44My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…
Just to confirm, are you the person the changed the Preview PDF text selection in newer macOS versions? o_0
We created a low-level framework that was used by PDFKit (and hence by Preview) to change the way selection of text in PDF documents is done. We never worked on Preview itself. Since the feature is part of PDFKit, it is also available to third-party apps that use PDFKit.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...
We'll say the same about flat buttons-that-don't-look-like-buttons too.
sure, but the discussion is about "timeless" design
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#46I've been using OS X since 2010, but in that time I never used the Dashboard. I didn't see any point.
A couple weeks ago, I watched the keynote of Steve Jobs introducing Tiger, and when he demo'd the Dashboard, I had this moment of dawning realization:
"Oh, so that's what you're supposed to use that for. That is... actually completely brilliant. Yes. I want that. Now."
I'm now using the Dashboard quite heavily. It's great.
It got even better a few days later when I watched the Leopard keynote and discovered how you're supposed to use Web Clips.
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#47What's interesting about this is how design and presentation has been a part of Apple's DNA since basically day one.
When they launched the Apple II in 1977 at the West Coast Computer Faire, there were dozens of other micro-computer startups there as well. But Steve had the foresight to hire a professional product designer to create the foam molded case, and professional graphic artists and marketing people to design their logo, brochures, booth, etc. In addition to the technical genius under the hood provided by Woz, the visual components clearly separated Apple from the pack and put them in the same league as multinational corporations Commodore and Tandy when Apple was still essentially two twenty somethings in a rented office in Cupertino.
Corporate DNA is an interesting phenomenon. Throughout the years, under various different leaders, Apple has somehow been able to consistently produce quality technology that people want to own because it looks good and is marketed well. One has to wonder how it becomes so ingrained in a company like that.
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#48Don't know why I expected granny smiths and red delicious stored in case of apocalypse.
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#49Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.
the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...
I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe the text shadows on the window title there are overdone but otherwise I think that looks great!
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#50My first contribution to a feature: https://www.applearchive.org/1999-feed/apple-special-event-o... at 13:24
A rather one-off thing, never ported to Mac OS X, but we had fun developing it.