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I’m amazed at how clear each UI element is from the background. Borders are apparently deemed uncool by today’s standards. In pretty much every other disciplin

I’m amazed at how clear each UI element is from the background. Borders are apparently deemed uncool by today’s standards. In pretty much every other discipline, we would engage in objective discussion about it. Also, why do we need trends in Design? Borders, separators, visible scrollbars have a particular era they belong to like fashion or music? It makes no sense. I can understand color palettes and such as part of an era's esthetic. We can take creative liberty there. It would be fun to interview the director of UX/UI at Apple and ask them why is 2013 UI worse than today? What specifically is wrong with 1990’s UI? What about 1980’s?

logbiscuitswave 6y ago
The ever shrinking and disappearing UI chrome is a trend that drives me crazy. Windows 10 programs essentially have no borders anymore which makes overlapping windows much more difficult to discern. Then there’s the design trend of hiding things like buttons and borders until you give it keyboard or mouse focus which is awful for discoverability. Then there’s the trend of disappearing scroll bars. This article showed just how much craftsmanship and thought there was in earlier versions of Mac OS. Sure there was plenty to grouse about (even though much of the maligned OS X skeuomorphism didn’t seem as present here) but a lot of the fundamentals were extraordinary.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  IMO, the only truly skeumorphic releases of OS X are Lion and Mountain Lion. Snow Leopard and Mavericks use textures from the real world, but rarely try to actually imitate objects.
  - addicted 6y ago
    No one outside of designers had even heard the word skeumorphism until Apple had that ridiculous iCal UI change that wasted a ton of UI space on nothing but looks. To be fair, it wasn’t the first or even the worst skeumorphism from Apple (arguably early versions of DVD player that were skeuomorphic to the extent that volume controls emulated a knob, that had to be circled by the mouse to change, from what i remember) but skeumorphism was used fairly benignly for the most part by Apple.

logbiscuitswave 6y ago

The ever shrinking and disappearing UI chrome is a trend that drives me crazy. Windows 10 programs essentially have no borders anymore which makes overlapping windows much more difficult to discern. Then there’s the design trend of hiding things like buttons and borders until you give it keyboard or mouse focus which is awful for discoverability. Then there’s the trend of disappearing scroll bars. This article showed just how much craftsmanship and thought there was in earlier versions of Mac OS. Sure there was plenty to grouse about (even though much of the maligned OS X skeuomorphism didn’t seem as present here) but a lot of the fundamentals were extraordinary.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
IMO, the only truly skeumorphic releases of OS X are Lion and Mountain Lion. Snow Leopard and Mavericks use textures from the real world, but rarely try to actually imitate objects.
- addicted 6y ago
  No one outside of designers had even heard the word skeumorphism until Apple had that ridiculous iCal UI change that wasted a ton of UI space on nothing but looks. To be fair, it wasn’t the first or even the worst skeumorphism from Apple (arguably early versions of DVD player that were skeuomorphic to the extent that volume controls emulated a knob, that had to be circled by the mouse to change, from what i remember) but skeumorphism was used fairly benignly for the most part by Apple.