“OS X 10.10 will likely gain a much flatter look, much like iOS 7, but it will still have an interface optimized for mouse and keyboard,” Lou Miranda blogs.
“Now, there is a possibility Apple may make the click targets larger (i.e., make buttons, pop-up menus, etc. taller) in order to support hybrid devices (laptops with touch screens, tablets with keyboards), but it’s a pretty fair guess that all the control complexity in OS X (that’s missing in iOS) will remain,” Miranda writes. “OK, so no major functionality changes, just appearance changes. But what exactly will the appearance be? Well, if you’re an iOS or OS X developer, the changes have been staring you in the face for a year. ”
“That’s because when Apple debuted Xcode 5 at last year’s WWDC, it came with a much flatter UI,” Miranda writes. “The screenshots [below] (Xcode 4 on the left; Xcode 5 on the right) show how some–but not all–features have been flattened by removing drop shadows, gradients, and borders.”
(screenshots via Lou Miranda)
Read more in the full article here.
OS X X.X
Gasp…OS XXX!
Back to System 7!!
I’m thinking the word VIEW will still have a triangle by it.
The bottom circled items do not match. It’s the next two items over…
The bottom circled items, though, indicate the selected vs. unselected objects. The fact that you missed that makes the flattening a fail. I’m okay with circled lines 1 and 3, but don’t like 2 or 4. 4 for the reason discussed here, and 2 because that VIEW line *needs* to stand out more – the triangle will help, but not enough imo.
That’s the current Xcode without the triangle, not a mockup.
I used to think Apple was the epitome of style and elegance with well designed software to match. Now they seem to be going rapidly downhill with the hideous iOS 7 that reminds me of my flat green bathroom tiles when I’m standing in front of the toilet whizzing away at 3am. Ive seems to have drained all style from iOS 7 presenting us with illegible hard to read text and fonts and a 2-D style format that ruins productivity. I think Ive is designing iOS 7 for the teen demographic who are more intent on playing Angry Birds than doing real work in the field on their iPhone.
OS X must stay the way it is and not be infected with the juvenile looking iOS 7 icons that are better suited to a kindergarten than a boardroom. iOS 7 looks like it was designed by a class full of 5-year old kids supervised by Rasputin the Mad Monk.
I’m not going to disrespect iOS 7. But what we see here is indeed HIDEOUS. But is it real?
If it is… Watch out Apple. I’m coming to get you!
remember away back when… when 0sX and the aqua interface arrived ? and it just kept getting better, bit by bit ?
and now ? god’s holy trousers, what the heck is going on?
oh how i love my snow leopard.
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
DISGUSTING
I might as well use Linux or Window 3.1
DISGUSTING
I hope this is just another stupid rumor. I’m going to wait and see X.X before I go more maniacal on the subject.
Damn. I messed up a bold tag at the end of the first ‘DISGUSTING’. Apologies.
Every time I read you, I see bold, whether you use it or not
If only we were somewhat the same age, dear goddess… 😉
Bo Derek is 3*19=57 years old, and guys are salivating over her on this thread. So I’m chopped liver.
I’ll be 57 in a month. I’d rather be friends with you than Bo Derek. (Sorry guys!)
Within one OOM, it works 🙂
Orbicularis Oculi Muscle?
Oh you mean Out Of Memory, as in forgetting how old one is?
No! You mean that you’re 5.7 years old! I get it. Or maybe you’re 570 years old. Uh Oh.
No, Derek. Within one order of magnitude. So, pretty much any age. That’s a joke, son.*
* cf. Fred Allen
Ive is driving me sick!
The icons one the left are thousands better looking then this poor flats!!!!
Ive (excuse-me “Sir” Ive), please give up! It’s not because You’ve been hating Forstall that You need to sacrifice nice bumped and shadowed objects!
Not looking good is it if that is anything to go by
With all the time and energy spent in developing 3D software and hardware accelerations for GUI’s just to toss them out over a FAD…that is silly. I have been programming Xcode since it was called Rhapsody. IMHO, humans live in a 3D world. We are geared to interact with 3D objects and people. I do believe that Apple’s, Asian inspired, “less is more” philosophy to GUI’s is great. But the 3D should stay.
In accord. I’ve already lived through the 1990s, thank you.
Do you develop OS X Apps?
A better example is pages, numbers and keynote…
And here I’ve been nagging Apple to at long bloody last use real 3D GUI elements in OS X. Then this 2D crap, without reflection or shadow emulation, shows up.
GaGaGooGoo.
The flatness in the icons I can handle (to a point) — some of the icons in the picture ARE easier to see in Xc5 — but getting rid of shadows and cues that that differentiate the major, unrelated items and different function sections of items is just dumb. And buttons not looking like buttons? Ugh.
Would this operating system be codename “Bo Derek”?
Been using Xcode5 for some time now, and feel it’s an improvement, appearance-wise and in many other ways, over previous versions. When I see its icons, ‘flat’ isn’t a word that comes to mind. Overall it’s just easier on the eye.
What I’d like to see is icons that match between same or similar apps on MacOS X and iOS.
Whining over design. Sheesh! They’re not designing for you old farts anyway, just the younger generation who have a voracious appetite to spend their ill-gotten pesos on the latest fad.
I feel so sorry for the complainers here with their third world problems. I hope you all survive this devastating development.
and have a great day.
ive is an idiot. There’s nothing he “designed” that Grundig didn’t do first.
Terrible !!!!!
SJ is spinning in his grave as fast as my turbocharger.
The iOS 7-ification of OS X is going to massively suck.
Sir Jony is a hardware genius, no doubt. But minimalism in a UI is not always beneficial.
I fear Mavericks will be my last Apple OS update for a while.
This is no fad, this is 3D evolved. (We don’t put faux 3d shit on print ffs, let the warm glow of the tubes go.) To think is going to give any new design cues away in Xcode must be a joke.
Looks like classic. Horrible. We live in a 3d world why are they making everything so soulless and ‘flat’ #thumbsdown
DOS X
I could live with this, but only if a) they didn’t switch to the crappy style of icons they did in iOS7, and b) they didn’t make the text so difficult to read as they did in 7.0, but seem to have fixed in 7.1.1
Wait, that’s all you got? The latest version of Xcode? Why not trot out iWork, or iCloud for that matter?
Thanks Lou Miranda for the ‘scoop’…
As the Mac gets thinner and thinner, the OS gets flatter and flatter.
I guess we’re finding flat more attractive? Not sure how many would agree with this. You know, computers and women are two different things.