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I honestly don't understand this design direction. I know it's nice to have a change but from the few screens I have seen on the Verge it looks like something that came from one of those "I redesigned OS X" blog posts.
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Chicago hasn't been the system font for roughly 14 years.
Ha, you're right. I guess something about how Lucida Grande is rendered, plus all the formative years spent on a Mac Plus, made it so I've been seeing Chicago this whole time. I'm feeling rather shaken right now.
Since nobody has mentioned it yet here, I'm really glad to see AirDrop will finally work between OSX and iOS. It's bothered me for awhile that they have these two different things called "AirDrop" which were not compatible with one another.
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Apple people like to mock Aero's translucency, but I... always liked it. Anyone else? Anyone?
Yes, I agree. I'm a professional visual designer, FWIW. After 22 years on Macintosh, I've completely transitioned to Crunchbang on a MacBook Pro and a Windows 7/Crunchbang dual-boot workstation. I really like the translucency and general look of Win7. I had started to feel like OS X was visually dated, but more importantly, harming my workflow. For development and design, I am working nearly twice as fast in the OS u…
Since nobody has mentioned it yet here, I'm really glad to see AirDrop will finally work between OSX and iOS. It's bothered me for awhile that they have these two different things called "AirDrop" which were not compatible with one another.
The lack of AirDrop integration before is probably one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently. I'm really excited for this simple new feature.
AirDrop pre-iOS8 (iCloud Drive, Extensibility) would have been almost totally useless or at minimum required developers to waste time supporting a temporary solution.
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First thing I thought of. "Look at how the background beautifully interacts with the translucent menu bar." Didn't we all turn that feature off back in 2007?! Though in fairness that was partly because it was such a hog on Vista. I've left translucency on in Win 7, though it sure isn't a productivity boost and it ain't 'beautiful' either.
Apple people like to mock Aero's translucency, but I... always liked it. Anyone else? Anyone?
Widgets, translucency, and animations... So... OS X 10.10 is... Windows Vista with Aero Glass? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Windows_Vista....
The only difference is that Apple has done it in a tasteful and understood way. Aero looks gaudy af.
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That's what they're doing on iOS7 also.
Not really. On iOS you can't/don't overlap windows, so its design language never had to describe this relationship. One of the questions floating around for the past few months was whether the next OSX would go in a flatter direction, and if so how they would cue window overlaps. It looks like the answers are (a) yes and (b) using roughly the same shadowing as before, plus translucence.
Both the Notification Center and the Control center on iOS "overlap" the screen through translucency. It could be argued that the parallax feature is also another attempt at differentiating layers within iOS, coupled with some of the animations i.e opening folders (also translucent), and multitasking.
That being said, I feel that iOS is unable to convey relationship of layers/overlapping windows well the way we are all accustomed to with desktop computers.
> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead. I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.
It might be. There are two different style options for it right now, aren't there? [edit] That's not a rhetorical question; I'm not at home with my mac so I don't know for sure.