Same here. I'd also add OS X UI has gone downhill since the good old Tiger days, backporting all bad ideas from iOS. Somehow, it feels like the hardware design

Same here. I'd also add OS X UI has gone downhill since the good old Tiger days, backporting all bad ideas from iOS. Somehow, it feels like the hardware design guys at Apple took over UI design and seem to have broken all the guidelines created by their former HIG lab, which once was at the forefront of UI research [1]. Now it seems minimalism (flat design) for the sake of it trumps everything else. I miss cozier designs, and so do many other heavy users I think. [1] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf