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Early OS X looked like a weird candyland to me. Not as lurid as XP, sure, but the 3D-like glassy buttons and the sliding animation as you minimised something al
by untog 8y ago
Early OS X looked like a weird candyland to me. Not as lurid as XP, sure, but the 3D-like glassy buttons and the sliding animation as you minimised something always struck me as kind of overkill.
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoWhen Jobs first showed off the Aqua UI, he was pretty excited about the æsthetics and what Quartz could do. There were also many practical things shown, but…
- bitwize 8y ago"I want to lick it!"
- protomyth 8y agoIt was quite the shock coming to OS X from NeXTSTEP. I actually ran with NeXTSTEP icons on OS X for a lot of years until they made it super hard with SIP.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoI miss old Aqua. The earliest revisions were definitely over the top, but the version that was part of Mavericks that had many years of refinements baked in struck me as a nice balance — it was more subdued and professional than its predecessors without being stripped of personality (unlike the flat theme that came with Yosemite). It was nice.
- bluedino 8y agoWhat about the stripes? What were they thinking with the stripes.
- pseudalopex 8y agoEarly Aqua looks like it was designed to match Apple's hardware. I don't think anyone misses the stripes, though.