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One opinion I do want to throw out there is with the screenshot the author has of the mac Coda application. What strikes me as completely out of place interms
by kentosi 17y ago
One opinion I do want to throw out there is with the screenshot the author has of the mac Coda application. What strikes me as completely out of place interms of visual asthetics is the mac vertical scroll bar.
While the rest of the screenshot looks pretty consistent interms of colour (low-contract, grey(ish) shades, modest use of gradients), there's this bright, shiny, blue, bubble-shaped scroll bar wedged inside a heavily-gradiented scrollbar background.
Whenever I see UI articles pointing to mac appeal, this is the first thing that strikes me as out of place. And I hope I'm not the only who thinks so.
- Groxx 17y agoYou're most definitely not. Look to iTunes to see what Apple is experimenting with in terms of UI, it's typically a release or two ahead. Some things are retained, some things are lost, of course. I think the shiny-blue scroll bars are doomed fairly soon, and looking at iTunes suggests they are indeed. The scroll bars there are a much less obtrusive non-glossy, paler base with a blue-grey tone, all heavily anti-aliased. They're also narrower, which I hope is kept. I rarely use the scroll bar, and most Mac users I know don't either; the two-finger scroll is more than accurate enough, and any specific point is still accessible by clicking on a specific location. Having a large one is unnecessary space waste, and draws your eye away from the content of the application.