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I always wondered who came up with that slowly pulsing light on sleeping first generation ibooks. It seemed like someone had put a lot of thought into that: It was very calming.
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Probably just nostalgia but man those icons remind me of how fun the internet and computing seemed in the mid late 90’s. Nowadays everything Seems sterile
Honestly a lot of people talk about how much they hate skeumorphism, but in the early '10s when most of the existing vendors abandoned it, it broke my heart and basically destroyed any love I still had for GUIs. First Microsoft abandoning skeumorphism with Windows Phone 7 (and later Windows 8), then Apple going to war against skeumorphism in iOS 7. That one-two punch just broke me, and it especially hurt when Apple d…
Some bits were just old school UI switched out for blocky rectangles. But other parts were great. It had a beautiful hotizontal scrolling pattern [1] that replaced patterns like Windows tabs and the iOS style navigation bars. The background had a parralax scrolling effect that tied it all together.
When the design used animation and motion well you could see a glimpse of something that was both unique and good. Even 11 years later, those designs look modern and usable.
Unfortunately Windows 10 has gone exclusively down the old-school UI with blocky boxes route.
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Probably just nostalgia but man those icons remind me of how fun the internet and computing seemed in the mid late 90’s. Nowadays everything Seems sterile
Honestly a lot of people talk about how much they hate skeumorphism, but in the early '10s when most of the existing vendors abandoned it, it broke my heart and basically destroyed any love I still had for GUIs. First Microsoft abandoning skeumorphism with Windows Phone 7 (and later Windows 8), then Apple going to war against skeumorphism in iOS 7. That one-two punch just broke me, and it especially hurt when Apple d…
That whimsical and idealistic nature is just completely gone from Apple, it died sometime in the 90s.
I guarantee the author did not use MS Word but rather some cloud platform to author this.
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Probably just nostalgia but man those icons remind me of how fun the internet and computing seemed in the mid late 90’s. Nowadays everything Seems sterile
Honestly a lot of people talk about how much they hate skeumorphism, but in the early '10s when most of the existing vendors abandoned it, it broke my heart and basically destroyed any love I still had for GUIs. First Microsoft abandoning skeumorphism with Windows Phone 7 (and later Windows 8), then Apple going to war against skeumorphism in iOS 7. That one-two punch just broke me, and it especially hurt when Apple d…
For me it wasn't just the old iOS, it was also Objective-C that I loved, it's still my favorite programming language to use. When they went to Swift, that was the nail in the coffin.
But I actually prefer iOS 5 over iOS 6. I bought a couple of old iPhone 4's (not the 4S, the 4) because it's possible to downgrade them to iOS 5 (or iOS 6 actually). I think the 4S is no longer able to downgrade.
I am writing an X window manager that imitates the old Mac Classic GUI to some degree and parts of the old iOS interface (as well as other classic GUI's), if you're interested you can take a look at hotdoglinux.com. I've been thinking of putting together some kind of Raspberry Pi distribution with a touchscreen interface, but we'll see.
You wouldn't need to become a billionaire to do that though, it's not that hard
> Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.” I guarantee the author did not use MS Word but rather some cloud platform to author this.
I love this video of Kare giving an introduction to the Mac interface on "Computer Chronicles" back in 1984 [1]. At first it seems quaint to see how slowly and carefully she explains what we now consider to be basic UI features. But then you realize that for many people in the world, a desktop computer is just as strange and confusing to them now as it was to most people back then. I think some of us (me included) wo…
> Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.” I guarantee the author did not use MS Word but rather some cloud platform to author this.
Word is available on office's cloud platform, too.
EDIT: Yep - no save button.