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Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
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#121. wunderlist. How is this beautiful? They crammed a wood-styled UI into OS X's standard window chrome. The toggle switches at the bottom are not the OS-provided ones and look like they're intended to match the iPhone app more than the OS they're running on. Things is a far better example here. 2. Reeder. See http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d... 3. Sparrow. These are not OS X toolbar icons…
wunderlist allows you to change the background (i dislike the woody theme myself).
plus, wunderlist is open source:
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#13Daisy Disk isn't a new idea... the Windows Freeware 'Scanner' by Steffen Gerlach was the first I saw to implement this disk view 8-9 years ago. Still find that utility priceless to this day. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
try the new 2.0 beta. the "main viz" is essentially the same, but lots of little animation tweaks here and there.
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#14Daisy Disk isn't a new idea... the Windows Freeware 'Scanner' by Steffen Gerlach was the first I saw to implement this disk view 8-9 years ago. Still find that utility priceless to this day. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Ahh yes, this tiny application is a permanent part of my Windows tool kit. Absolutely fantastic for finding out where all the disk space has gone.
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#15DaisyDisk is really awesome, I use this app a lot on my Macbook Air because disk space is still relatively scarce compared to my other machines. I like it a lot and recommend it.
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#16Daisy Disk isn't a new idea... the Windows Freeware 'Scanner' by Steffen Gerlach was the first I saw to implement this disk view 8-9 years ago. Still find that utility priceless to this day. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Filelight has also been doing this in KDE since about 2003. I still think it's slightly easier to use than DaisyDisk, since the labels actually point to the sunburst chart. But DaisyDisk does look much spiffier.
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#171. wunderlist. How is this beautiful? They crammed a wood-styled UI into OS X's standard window chrome. The toggle switches at the bottom are not the OS-provided ones and look like they're intended to match the iPhone app more than the OS they're running on. Things is a far better example here. 2. Reeder. See http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d... 3. Sparrow. These are not OS X toolbar icons…
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#181. wunderlist. How is this beautiful? They crammed a wood-styled UI into OS X's standard window chrome. The toggle switches at the bottom are not the OS-provided ones and look like they're intended to match the iPhone app more than the OS they're running on. Things is a far better example here. 2. Reeder. See http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d... 3. Sparrow. These are not OS X toolbar icons…
4. It's not that unique, is it? I used KDE's FileLight[1][2] some years ago and it had that same visualization.
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#19Far too many physical metaphors, I thought we got over that in the early 90's with MS-Bob.
Designers, please, if you are thinking of using wood paneling or shelves in your design, stop, move on to the next idea.
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#201. wunderlist. How is this beautiful? They crammed a wood-styled UI into OS X's standard window chrome. The toggle switches at the bottom are not the OS-provided ones and look like they're intended to match the iPhone app more than the OS they're running on. Things is a far better example here. 2. Reeder. See http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d... 3. Sparrow. These are not OS X toolbar icons…
> http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d...
Jeez, where did you find this junk? Ridiculously lopsided and it reads like the Reeder's designer peed in author's morning coffee at some point.
> The user is moving towards those (quite small) buttons from a fair distance away, and are therefore likely to overshoot.
Likely to overshoot? Really? I take if buttons were larger, the user would just hit them with one flick of the wrist, no correction, not slowing down half way through, no undershooting or overshooting. Just one motion with a beautifully smooth acceleration curve every user is so striving for.
The app is optimized for better reading experience, and the blog guy makes no attempt to account for what the app's primary and routine usage is. It is - suprise - reading. Not clicking the buttons. Reading. Make buttons larger - and you just introduced extraneous visual noise and took away from the screen real estate in the app that (won't hurt repeating) is for reading.
> Someone came out with a Mac OS application that’s clearly a touch UI crowbarred into a point-and-click universe
Someone came out with a pretentious blog post crowbarred into a formal UX analysis format.
> This is NOT how to make Mac apps, guys.
And this is now not to... ah, nevermind.