“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.
I am done with your stupid ads including Samdung and defunding Obamacare. Good riddance.
Rios, nice job with the Photoshopping. But as many here have stated, turning the Mac into iOS7 would only make the world an uglier place. All of the reasons to “simplify” and flatten and wash out content in iOS7 simply don’t work for a desktop GUI.
People who live in the real world appreciate textures and borders and contrast and tasteful skeumorphism. There is absolutely no reason to dumb down the Mac OS. It’s more than flat enough already, thank you very much.
Some new Icons? Like Wimdows and Office for each version?