Comments on: Mac OS X: Where’d Our UI Go?

By: Santiago

Santiago — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:27:27 +0000

I miss you Paltinum Theme.... snif snif...

wtf... i'm going to boot in OS 9 right Now...

I'm a graphic designer... i'dont need all this "productive" widgets... >:(

Please apple please... OS X and Windows UI are too close!!!!...

By: Ghost Cassette

Ghost Cassette — Mon, 05 May 2003 09:36:57 +0000

Safari User Interface Suggestions

I use Apple’s Safari as my primary web browser and do so out of choice; Safari is reportedly the fastest browser available for Mac OS X. A large part of my reasons for using it rest solely with the fact...

By: {moon.drop}

{moon.drop} — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:24:44 +0000

Apple's Interface Quirks

From the bugs-that-bug-me department: 1) You can minimize a window to the dock from the keyboard, but can't get it back without clicking. 2) Click on any menu with a text title (left side). Now, without letting go, drag to the right so you're over an i...

By: Apple Bug Filing Day | NSLog();

Apple Bug Filing Day | NSLog(); — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:56:43 +0000

Today I filled out about 40 bug reports at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Here's the list, from our previous articles on the "inconsistencies" we find creeping up in the Mac GUI. If you have any bugs that you'd like to add to this list, let me know (me...

By: Me, Google, and Blogging | NSLog();

Me, Google, and Blogging | NSLog(); — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:31:33 +0000

They say Google lives on fresh links, and I guess you could say I've been linked to a few times lately. But here's a resulting curiosity: Google on "metal mac os x hig" and the first result (or two, depending on how you count) is this very site. Y'know...

By: Daring Fireball

Daring Fireball — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:19:47 +0000

Inconsistencies

On Apple's trend toward slightly inconsistent user interface widgets (and why it's bad for the Mac)...

By: Mac UI Round-Up: OSNews | NSLog();

Mac UI Round-Up: OSNews | NSLog(); — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:49:57 +0000

Given that OSNews is now linking to some mini-rants by Vinay, Matt, and myself, I thought I'd pull them all (the ones I find anyway, to this point) into one post. My posts, anyway - hit the trackbacks and links in the articles themselves to find most o...

By: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Sci-Fi Hi-Fi — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:48:56 +0000

Apple UI-land In Bad Decline?

...I'm going to add a few comments to this particular discussion, however-- both because I think in this case the nay-sayers have some valid points, and because I would like to offer some dissenting food for thought...

By: digital graphite

digital graphite — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:36:21 +0000

apple's compliance with the hig released by apple

both erik and matt both wrote articles about apple's ui principles and and what they are doing with them

By: Stephane Curzi

Stephane Curzi — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:18:56 +0000

I agree that Apple as gone crazy with it's UI. Here's a couple of comment.

"should be able to close a window in the background without bringing that app forward"

This behavior for a multi-window app make sense, but with an app like AddressBook, I'm not sure if it should apply.

"Apple's use of keyboard shortcuts"

I use to brag to Windows user that a good Mac app use the same keyboard shortcut that every other app... Too bad it's not true anymore.

"The checkboxes in iCal"

I agree with you that it make no sense to do widget in TIFF but at least I can understand the different checkbox in iCal since it helps that they are different colors. What I don't get is why some button are gray round corner rectangle like iTunes and others are the new pyramidal aqua button bar !

"Safari uses a pair of non-standard toolbars"

Have you look at Backup ? It use a regular toolbar behavior except you can't modify it.

iTune still use the shadow on the window button, probably because it use to have the same look in OS 9, they are probably too lazy to change the window underneath all the interface...

The close window button in Backup is visible but inactive !! You cant close the window but you can quit the app. Why is it different than the address book or the calculator ?

There is too many weird thing in OS X interface but I still think that it's better than the alternative