(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
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(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
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Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#2Wow, this is incredible. Can’t imagine how much work this took.
Seeing this makes me think about how many modern applications could learn a few things from the old Mac OS 8/9 Human Interface Guidelines. [0]
[0] http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#3This is amazing.
And, wow, actual separate windows for things! I am constantly frustrated by Slack’s inability to show more than one conversation at a time.
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#4incredible work (really) but this is obviously not a realistic user experience: I can tell what's clickable on the screen easily and things are generally too consistent and simply make too much sense
I mean, neat concept, but really lacking in the user hostility that today's users demand
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#5Stimulates a bit of an impulse I had as a teenager and wanting to experience that on my PC, or get into BeOS or QNX, based just on witnessing screenshots and something deeply striking my fancy. Before I got into Linux (which was before I got a Mac in 2006), I used WindowBlinds and LiteStep to do exactly that, and more. I used to really care more about certain trappings of my experience, and I didn't have any actual work to do. Now I settle for whatever in my 30s.
Let's see, what is my first extant contribution to the Internet… oh yeah, I thought this was handsome. It was a theme for an explorer.exe shell replacement.
https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/litestep/154/
https://skins14.wincustomize.com/1/53/153855/6/154/preview-6...
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#6I enjoyed this, though the pull down menus at the top are shifted down a little further than the real thing and spaced a little far, and the labels on the desktop icons weren't quite that fat. Hey, when it comes to the uncanny valley, it's the little things.
But the apps ring true. The splash screens are a nice touch.
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#7Stimulates a bit of an impulse I had as a teenager and wanting to experience that on my PC, or get into BeOS or QNX, based just on witnessing screenshots and something deeply striking my fancy. Before I got into Linux (which was before I got a Mac in 2006), I used WindowBlinds and LiteStep to do exactly that, and more. I used to really care more about certain trappings of my experience, and I didn't have any actual w…
"542 lines of code" (a configuration file), "best viewed in tahoma size 7"... cringe.
In my defense, it was 2001-2002, I mostly had MS Paint at my disposal, and I was 14 (and not like a smart 14).
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#8It might be an unpopular opinion (in general), but OS 9 was actually beautiful. The design elements might look clunky by today's standards, but they were quite self-explanatory & functional, as compared to current macOS flat designs. I am stating purely from an angle of being friendly to an absolute beginner (e.g. a kid).
I was in middle school in 2001 when I saw a paint program (MacPaint?) on an oyester iBook - It was way more intuitive and engaging than Windows counterpart. I think late Classic Macintosh (v8.6-9) to early OSX (~10.8) had a very good aesthetic balance between form & function.
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#9Wow, this is incredible. Can’t imagine how much work this took. Seeing this makes me think about how many modern applications could learn a few things from the old Mac OS 8/9 Human Interface Guidelines. [0] [0] http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
It’s amazing to me how much more usable those UIs are. Not to mention how much more performant they’d be than modern Electron garbage.
But forget about Mac OS 9, we don’t even have native OS X or Windows interfaces anymore. Doesn’t help that Apple dropped the ball on following their own UI guidelines.
Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
#10This would not only look great, but run incredibly fast:
Low-res bitmap icons, bitmap fonts, no antialiasing, no composition, etc.
On Linux you can still have a pretty old school desktop with some of these elements... but may not run well on HiDPI.