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Ask HN: Why does OS X have more aesthetically beautiful GUI applications?
I was in the other Ask HN thread asking about note taking apps. The solutions that were OS X only had such a beautiful interface/UX.
Now, aesthetics is probably a perspective thing. But still I can't help but feel that these applications are a notch above, say, Linux GUI applications.
- PaulHoule 10y agoOn Linux they can't be bothered to get font metrics right for starters.
- iampoul 10y agoBetter guidelines, https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/ https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us... And i also think its cultural thing though, they most likely have a huge community with people who has a flare for designing things that goes into the Apple-ecosystem, OS X is pretty nice to look at, and therefor people need to up their design principles to make their applications fit the OS, but don't get me wrong, there are a lot of ugly apps fro OS X as well, they just don't get the same promotion as the good looking apps. :D Apple is a lot about design, also when it comes to development. Only my personal thoughts and what i believe might be the reason.