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Pill-shaped buttons were part of the Aqua theme in the original release of OS X. For a long time after that, UIs aped Aqua with pinstripes and jelly-shaded pill
by NoSorryCannot 5y ago
Pill-shaped buttons were part of the Aqua theme in the original release of OS X. For a long time after that, UIs aped Aqua with pinstripes and jelly-shaded pills and while the pinstripes and jelly have gone, I think the pills are here to stay for some styles.
- systemvoltage 5y agoYeah but there was a huge push just last year, basically every single SaaS app to Firefox, everyone folded. During the Aqua days, every company had their own unique take on design. Today, it is a design monoculture driven by the types of Stripe and Apple. Design used to be a differentiating feature. Everything looks the same today. Kind of a Big Tech dystopia, even in design.
- NoSorryCannot 5y agoMy point was, a lot of UI followed or was heavily inspired by whatever Apple was doing even then. These days, there's more Google in the mix. Before pill buttons, they were gray beveled rounded rectangles, be it native or web, on every platform. I don't view now as being especially dominated by sameness versus the past.
- dvtrn 5y agoAs the owner of an ultrawide...so much whitespace.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoIt was already there 10 years earlier in OpenLook.
- Angostura 5y agoAqua - the "lickable" theme. I miss it, I prefer it to the current washed out MacOS where I cant tell what is what.