“Edgar Rios is not only a Photoshop whizz, but also pretty good at imagining the future. Extrapolating from iOS 7, Edgar has come up with what he thinks could be the next version of the Mac OS, and I really, really like it,” Charlie Sorrel writes for Cult of Mac.
“Usually this kind of thing starts off fine before veering into the absurd, adding fingerprint readers to the screen, or other nonsense,” Sorrel writes. “Edgar’s renderings are the opposite: smart, fairly conservative, and the kind of thing that would actually make the Mac better to use.”
Sorrel writes, “Control Center looks the most promising. After all, if I can three-finger swipe from the right edge of my trackpad to bring up notifications, why not let me swipe in from the left to see some oft-used controls?”
Read more in the full article here.
Edgar Rios’ iOS 7-inspired OS X gallery is here.
That control on the side would be pretty cool
But it’s missing the pink strapon, so it’s a no go.
Of course, you’d know all about pink strap-ons, wouldn’t you; at least, from what I’ve heard…
But where’s the flashlight?!
I think it’s just a matter of time…
Please, no.
Maybe I’m just weird, but I vastly prefer the look of iOS6 to iOS7 — Just my own opinion. The last thing I’d like to see is for the Mac OS to begin adopting the hard to read look of iOS7.
Now I can see why Android fans are so big on “skins”. If you really don’t like what your provider gives you, you can change things around. Until iOS7 came along, I was just happy with the way things looked on the iPhone. Now I wish I had “skinning” capability because I just don’t agree with the new look at all.
Not saying others don’t find it beautiful, but I wish that MY PHONE could use the old look. Sadly, sticking with iOS6’s capabilities won’t work in the long run, even if it does look better.
C++ you’re not weird, you are one of the few left with taste.
Apple’s mistake was keeping the UI unchanged for 5 years, letting ‘android’ set the pace, then playing catch up with a patently derivative design shamelessly ripped from apps such as Yahoo Weather.
*My* mistake was thinking this pastel Playskool design aesthetic would grow on me. Quite the opposite has happened.
I’m going to the Apple Store tomorrow to return my iOS 7 hobbled iPhone. I might go back to my old iPhone 4 (kept as a spare iPod) or get a flip phone and get a used iPad mini, who knows. This is a first for me, I got the original iPhone back in ’07, so I’m a bit discombobulated.
The prospect that OS X will inherit this look is frankly depressing.
Yeah you do that troll.
F you and your opinion nazi ‘anybody that disagrees with me is a troll’ BS.
Amazing how narrow-minded some folks are around here. He gave an intelligent, reasoned explanation for why he dislikes the look of iOS 7 and your only response is to call him a troll?? Grow up dude…
Geddy said: “The prospect that OS X will inherit this look is frankly depressing.”
+ 2^infinity.
It is WORSE than depressing. And I agree 100% with you on iOS7, it looks as if it was designed for young girls. I will NEVER load iOS7 on my 4s nor will I ever buy an iPhone with iOS7 on it should I need another phone.
And for the knee-jerk asses here who might call me a troll, I’ve been a long-time Mac addict and cheerleader years before the day Jobs came back to Apple. If anything, it is YOU people who are the trolls because you know that iOS7 has a playskool look to it and you are the ones who want Apple to fail and you can see iOS pushing Apple in that direction.
Here’s what I said about the new color scheme being a major flaw:
“The new OS is amazing and the look and feel is quite cool however, the new color scheme is a major flaw because now it is more difficult to easily distinguish screen elements and see them clearly without ‘eye effort’, specially for thous wearing eyeglasses.”
The thin lines also don’t help for an easy viewing when the color is light on light or when the contrast between foreground and background elements is low contrast.
If only Apple could fix that low contrast issue it would be great.
From this MDN news item:
http://macdailynews.com/2013/09/28/the-single-most-impressive-thing-about-apples-new-ios/
While I find iOS 7 to be functionally better than iOS 6, I still find I prefer iOS 6. The UI in iOS 6 had ( for lack of a better description) a certain warmth and depth to its feel. iOS 7 on the other hand has all the warmth and depth of a stainless steel counter top. I hope they don’t continue this into the OS X desktop.
Nut? Nut? Are you there?
Notice how C++ and Barks express their opinions and preferences both STRONGLY and CLEARLY — without insulting gays, girls or the umpteen million people using and liking iOS 7.
If I may say so, thanks to both of you.
If you tone down the sensitivity of your politically correct antenna, you’ll get less worked up over minor issues. Take a couple of aspirins and call me in the morning. You’ll get there in the end.
It’s not “politically correct” antenna, pseudo-Seamus. It’s “crass, boorish, poisonous, verbally violent asshole” antenna.
Well said, extremely well said @Barks. Agree completely. No WARMTH or appeal. Or as modern music critics are fond of saying, its got no heart, no soul and certainly no DEPTH …
From Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
(Palpable irony.)
I like what’s he’s done with the Centers, but not too sure about the look of that flattened Dock.
I already have a “flat” Dock, by using the “hidden” (Terminal) command to make the bottom Dock (with the 3D “shelf”) look like the Dock when it is placed on the side of the screen. It looks like a translucent (shaded) areas with a simple border. It is much less distracting (and more functional)…
I think this one is more “appropriate” for desktop apps and follows a more apple design aesthetic
http://www.studoesdesign.co.uk/work/osxivericks/
Couldn’t agree with you more. The look and readability of iOS6 is Far better than iOS7.
Just dont pleaaase Apple just dont make the apps look like the crap on ios7 its infantile and harsh to look at and use… calendar is nasty. I have stopped using it and replaced it with Opus Domini I love it I never thought i would replace an Apple app for a third party but here i am thanks to ios7. Opus syncs like a champ over icloud and has the look of a calendar and complete personal daytime type suite,.. that is efficient and works on all my devices.. Apple did me a disservice on making io7 so ugly and user unfriendly.
I absolutely cannot stand any part of the new iOS 7 “look.” It is puerile, simplistic, and uninspiringly two-dimensional. Functionality pluses remain to be seen in the days and weeks ahead, of course . . . but WITNESSETH:
I just returned from an appointment with an Apple Genius in my city, showing him what has come to be a deal-killer in my newly-updated iPad. That is, in the new iteration of the video app, all movie thumbnails display on a WHITE background (as opposed to the original BLACK) . . . with no titles displaying anywhere near them. There’s no text there at all!
The Genius and I suspect that the missing titles are actually displaying in the original WHITE text (on the white background)–making them invisible in the new display scheme. I begged for a return to iOS 6 on my Pad, but to no avail. His solution? To send me a brand new one (AT&T/128GB) from their warehouse, in hopes that it will come from far enough back in the pipeline to have iOS 6 on it. That was the best he (a truly sweet kid) could do.
NOTE: This current practice of Apple’s of not allowing customers to “downgrade” to a previous iOS OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING (allowing for hardware compatibility, of course) is, in my humble opinion, criminal. It is certainly unethical.
Oh well. Please forgive the rant. I’ve been an avid Apple customer and stock holder since the early ’80s: IIe, Mac, Newton, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc., and this is the first time I have personally been at great odds with this great company. In hopes of a MUCH BETTER iOS 7.1 . . . .
You cannot voice your dislike of ios7 here. The Apple Nazis here will not tolerate it.
You must here worship Jonny Ive got a pink dildo up my ass.
iOS 7 is the most HIDIOUS POS ever made for an OS and is like shitting on the grave of Steve Jobs and everything he worked for.
Can you not restore iOS 6 from your iTunes backup before you upgraded to iOS 7?
If you don’t have a backup, why not try restoring from a friend’s iOS 6 backup and then replacing all your settings, apps, and content.
Can this be done as I have suggested?
If it truly is drawing white text on a white background, write up a bug with reproducible steps at bugreport.apple.com.
Isn’t “bug reporter” just for developers?
Please no – add me to the voices that dislike iOS7. But I fear they will add that flat gimmicky look to Mavericks too.
Well, I’l be staying on Snow Leo for as long as I can. Just wish I could downgrade my iPhone 4.
Here’s to those who are happy with the new iOS 7!
And here’s to those who, just over a week or so ago, were equally happy with iOS 6!
Question: Why will Apple not allow BOTH factions to enjoy their devices without disruption, complaint, and general unhappiness? Tell us, one and all, why can’t we just get along and use whatever OS we want?
What is so wrong with that?
I tried sticking with iOS 6 for the longest time, but you’re practically forced to ‘upgrade’ to iOS 7 if you don’t want to lose functionality and app developers don’t ‘strand you on an island’ by not developing for iOS 6. I found this to my cost when a couple of apps starting crashing in iOS 6 because they were optimised for iOS 7. You’re virtually not given a choice whether to stick with iOS 6 because all future development work has stopped and you cannot gain any more functionality on your mobile device.
In my opinion iOS 7 adds nothing to the user experience for two reasons. You need to relearn certain aspects of the OS, particularly the iconology as they’re now cryptic lines that do not represent the function with which they are associated. Secondly, the loss of ‘signposts’ and clear text containers in iOS 6 is a loss in usability because now you have to look twice to figure out what a text says when you could at a glance figure out the action required to take you back to your previous screen because there was a ‘back’ signpost showing you the way.
“For the longest time”? It’s been what, a week?
Did you contact the developers to say that their apps, THAT WERE ALLOWED TO RUN ON iOS 6, WERE CRASHING?
They should be told that.
After all they let me still use iOS 5 on my iTouch 3 gen . Oh that’s right, they never enabled the upgrade. Still use it for Pandora and Tune in Radio and a few other things. Works okay for that.
Well I like the new interface. The icons don’t bother me at all. Movie thumbnails have text in the thumbnail which is to say, if the thumbnail doesn’t display the movie poster, the title appears in its place.
And I hated the Skeuomorphism.
Perhaps there’ll be a war between iOS6 lovers and the iOS7 lovers. Like the earthtone coalition and the forces of brightness in Neal stephensons Reamde
Your eyesight is exceptional, congratulations! But please have a thought for those of us who are not so lucky. I have trouble with things that should be obvious : the charge indicator (too similar shadings) , Icon labelling (no shading to allow for differing backgrounds), the stopwatch (can no longer read it in daylight without my glasses), and various actions which are no longer intuitive.
I remember going from 0s9 to OSX for the first time. I HATED it at first, but after time it was like having a brand new, and much better computer.
Oh God, please no. The flat Yogi-Bear-cartoon-style interface is bad enough on iOS. I want a computer for grown-ups that I can use without eating a bowl of cereal while wearing my jammies.
I can’t bear the thought of a 27″ screen with a UI that has only bright colors, low contrast, and barely detectable ultra-ultra thin fonts.
You don’t like the fonts in iOS 7? So change them to the bold setting already, and stop bleating.
Rorschach, it’s so wonderful to run into someone here, like you, who is so nice, so considerate, and so kind. But to reply, I did make the fonts bolder. I really hoped it would like nicer, but after I put the lipstick on the pig, it was still a pig.
Some people like iOS 7. Some people like peanut butter rhubarb crunch ice cream. What’s significant is not whether anyone likes it, but how many don’t. If you cook dinner for a crowd, and 5% don’t like it, you are doing fine. But if you cook dinner for a crowd and 30% send their plates back, you messed up.
In the past, any discontent about the iOS UI was muted, if there was any at all. This time, there are a LOT of people who feel that iOS 7’s UI is an assault on their senses, their eyesight, and their good taste. For the first time, there is a controversy among loyal Apple fans about the iOS UI. Apple needs to sit up and pay attention.
Granted, some people really like the garish colors, the lack of contrast, the flat, low-budget cartoon look, the color choices (Garish Green, Invisible-Ink Blue, and Spotlight White), and the ultra-ultra thin font that is more detectable than readable. For some people that has a lot of appeal, and I don’t begrudge them that. But a significant number of us think that these features, along with the rainbows and unicorns and ponies that would feel right at home in it, but are mysteriously missing, are not appropriate for a smartphone for grown ups. We are the 30% who metaphorically sent our metaphorical plates back. A dissatisfaction rate that high means someone goofed. If it were truly intuitive, there’d be no dissatisfaction.
We are vocal about it only because we expect the best from Apple and didn’t get it.
I doubt that 3 million of the first weekends iPhone purchasers don’t like iOS7. Or 30% of the MASSIVE number of downloads. Where do you get 30%?
The 30% was in the metaphor about cooking. The people who don’t like iOS are like the 30% in the metaphor. It’s not a literal 30%, nor did anyone who dislikes iOS 7 send a plate to Apple.
The point of what I was saying, in a metaphor, is that enough people dislike iOS 7 to affect future sales and corporate image, and some rethinking and redesigning needs to be done.
I like the new iOS, and frankly do not understand the whining. It seems that 90% of Cult of Mac’s content is based on either what they like about Android as compared to iOS, or “Artist renditions” of imaginary Apple products. Waste of time. Be Here Now. Nothing wrong with visualizing the future, but when you don’t have Jony Ive’s talent, it gets tedious to look at.
So why did all of you people upgrade if you didn’t like the look? No one forced you to upgrade right away; you should have waited until either people you knew upgraded and you could see it in person, visited a store with iOS 7 products on display, or photos were posted on the internet.
I like iOS 7, although there are certainly changes I would like to see implemented. The functionality is better, and I really like the movement and 3D motion. I think a little depth to icons will be added back in eventually.
Your points are addressed in my post above. It’s not a question of not wanting to upgrade but more a question of you’re being practically pushed to upgrade.
1. Who are “you people”? I bought the Bondi Blue iMac in 1998 and the original iPhone in 2007.
2. I hoped the new look would grow on me. It didn’t.
3. I didn’t know the downgrade window was so short.
It’s called *taste*. Not everyone likes what you like.
Well… Ive’s iOS7 hasn’t the monopoly of good taste. It is just the actual trend. I miss the beauty of rich icons and all that flatness gets quite monotone. Hopefully OSX won’t go too much into this frozen stuff.
Looks nice here. This mock OS looks better on a computer than iOS. iOS7 has great new features but it just doesn’t look right.
I suspect what a lot of iOS 7 haters really hate is change.
Of course you can downgrade older (pre-5C and 5S) iPhones if you don’t like 7, but then – what?
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sorry, but poor logic.
I’m an early adopter with all things Apple.
First to get each new iMac, first on the iPhone, Apple TV and update of each new OS without hesitation… until now.
I have no problem with ‘new’ but I do have a problem with design that is aimed at teenaged girls.
Like others here, I sincerely hope that OS X doesn’t go the Hello Kitty route…
Sorry, but zero logic on your part. Don’t upgrade, that would be logical. Being “first” just to be first is leaping before you look – that’s just not logical.
Where, exactly, is my logic “poor” and yours “rich”. Go back to iOS 6 and look before you leap, okay Mr. Spock?
dmz
Change is no problem, I’ve been through more changes than most, but when a change does not take into account the ability of all to read and ease of use (intuitiveness), then it is a problem. My real problem is age, my eyesight is not as good as it was, but this did not limit me with ios6 as it does with ios7. It is necessary to upgrade to this ios for two reasons, 1: the good features that are in this system, 2: to continue to be usable into the future. I have an original Ipad on which many of the apps are becoming unusable or at best unupgradable, simply because the new ios’s cannot be loaded
Anything based on iOS7’s looks will fall flat! Until the fonts and icons are changed, forget it!
I think a “control panel” swipe in OS X would be handy.
There has been a lot of negative talk about how iOS 7 looks. In my view iOS 7 is way easier to use. However, SOME of the colors are a little too bright for my taste, I wouldn’t put iOS 7 in the “ugly category” like “vista” but I’d tone it down some. The one icon I don’t like is the music icon. Even with this comment, I still prefer 7 to 6 because it is so much easier to use and better laid out.
Twenty years ago (even ten years ago) the “graphical user interface” for a computer was a big deal, and the center of attention. Microsoft STILL tries to put it front-and-center, by making users touch the screen, as part of normal functionality. Psychologically, that’s understandable, because Microsoft is primarily a software-centered company (despite their recent “ventures”). They NEED Windows to say, “Hey – Look at me!”
When Mac OS X was first released, it was all bright and glossy, like candy. Steve Jobs said it makes you want to “lick the screen.” At that time, Apple wanted the Mac OS X GUI to be the center of attention, because it was THE major selling point for Macs. But Apple is a hardware-centered company, with well-integrated software and services. The hardware brings in the profits; the software and services help sell the hardware.
Over time, with each major release, the Mac OS X GUI has become more and more understated. Jony Ive has stated in his video interviews about how the interface should be highly functional but “just get out the way” (or words to that effect) of the user’s experience in using the computer (or device) to do “actual stuff.” It’s not Apple’s intent to have users sit around admiring the interface. Apple’s wants it to be efficient, highly functional, and unobtrusive.
And that trend will continue. The user interface becoming more “flat” is nothing new. It’s been happening gradually since Panther (10.3).
I like his Control Center, also the iTunes album playing at top left.
In fact, if he makes iTunes work better than the present abomination (the green button STILL doesn’t work) then I’d say to Apple, please use him.
PLEASE no nouveau Tic Tac user interface for OS X!!! The very tought of it makes me nauseous!
Look like the same piece of shit that fuckup Ives pushed out of his anal cavity to call iOS7. What is that CEO faggot doing? They are putting out pure shit. Fire that fuckup Ives, and lose the queer.
x — Thanks SO much for your insightful contribution. Your thinking is like a laser, cutting to the heart of the matter, illuminating the issues like a veritable ray of wisdom. I’m sure everyone has been persuaded by the devastating logic and your veritably poetic use of the English language
Or to put it another way… Get a fucking clue, MDN. If you don’t want to spend any time moderating, a simple software filter would take care of most of the mental shitting, like the above by loser x.