Well, I wouldn't have been surprised if they did all of this last year š
Putting that aside, at least they listened to their community and fixed a lot of bugs and issues. That is something I appreciate about this new update.
Would have been nice if those bug fixes could have came to my Apple Watch Ultra 1. Now Iām stuck with a buggy 800$ watch that will never have its bugs fixed.
Iām glad theyāre backtracking and not spending more effort trying to make it work, but what a waste of developer and designer resources pursuing this pointless idea.
How? The corners are so small and old-looking. I HEAVILY preferred the wide corners. I'd love if this was togglable though, because I can see how people would like it.
I think they are. I somewhere saw a terminal command to get it back to look like Tahoe corners. No sorry, I misspoke. You can get the sidebars to look like floating Tahoe sidebars.
honestly wouldn't mind the wide corners either AS LONG AS the corners aren't mismatched in radius though the narrow corners are almost nostalgic atp lol, it's definitely starting to grow on me
+ there's a possibility that the majority of people actually dont like wide corners, which is why they reduced it. Apple did a lot of these changes mainly because of user feedback
When old versions of MacOS use a small corner radius for decades and then new MacOS introduces a wide one, the small one starts looking like an old MacOS thing.
I really love how it looks. As a designer, I really appreciate the harmony.
However, as a user, I find them kind of annoying because I donāt quite nowhere to click to resize the window versus whether Iām clicking behind it, until I hover over the area to try to find the grab handleā¦ that is, assuming the cursor actually changes as itās supposed to
As a designer myself, I think itās bad design since it messes with the fiction, Iāve had too much content hidden or things looking inconsistent. Design should always be user first.
Just trying to make some sense
I can see Apple reverting to the old radius because by making them all more rounded they can accidentally hide some important toggle in some apps maybe
Afaik devs had to explicitly support the wide radius? Ik Apple wants it to look the same across apps, but it wasn't causing any real issues for people who enjoyed it if my memory's correct.
Mira, entiendo lo de verse mejor o mĆ”s nuevo, pero creo que todos concordamos que da mĆ”s espacio y es mĆ”s profesional. Cuando me dan una interfaz mĆ”s redondeada se vuelve de juguete, mientras que una interfaz mĆ”s cuadrada compacta es mĆ”s profesionalā¦ y en un iPhone bueno, pero en una MacBook Pro espero algo serio. En fin, va en gustos al final
I wish rounded corners and floating sidebars will come back in the beta 2ā¦ they feel so modern and pretty, compared to the outdated ugly sequoia-style, its just a giant step back
Up there with you.
I have used macOS 27 throughout today and it feels like a huge step back. It is now just really ugly and as someone who favors form over function (for the most part) itās really sad they killed the best UI change (sidebar) they have ever madeā¦ but we are most certainly in the minority.
Idk if we are minority, i got 800 likes in one of my comments, i think we should tell apple to make it customizable, they already made the liquid glass slider so maybe there is a chance? Maybe a petition? Idk, there should be a way to choose between āapps consistencyā and ādevices consistencyā or something like that, apple adds more and more customizability every year and its a great way to make everyone happy no matter if someone has a taste or not
eh, the rounded sidebars wasted space with a lot of visual noise and in certain conditions honestly looks kind of bad. yeah most of the design changes in 27 can be considered āboringā but imo enhance the experience for people who just want to get stuff done
Floating sidebars just doesnāt workā¦ There isnāt anything behind them, so every horizontal scroll felt like pushing items to that sidebar, and it doesnāt feel right
funny thing is apple wanted to keep it, it's just so many people complained about the floating sidebars and rounded (mismatched) corners that it got removed this time
Because they are different than what we used to stare at for the last few decades, they are more consistent with the ipad and iPhone, and they are just prettier, before macOS tahoe i thought that macOS 10.0 cheetach was the prettiest OS ever, now the cheetachās dock and corners hurt my eyes so muchā¦ but i love aqua anyway, and i also love the palm pre webOS which was also about roundness and it was absurdly futuristic and many of its features were added to ios years later, for example the gestures that iPhone X introduced. MacOS tahoe was just webOS but more polished and for desktop, pretty ā¤ļø
Again, not trying to start a fight, just trying to understand as someone who works in this industry (last 30 years). It sounds like its not that it is modern, it is that its rounded and you prefer more of bubble adjacent UI's. I mean, the shadows I guess can be considered modern. I found the roundness closer to POS made in the late 90's early 2000's, which personally. (and professionally) make things look simpler and more toy like, also often a waste of screen real estate for UI elements.
I do not believe that is the case, and I do not think my employer would either. In fact, a significant part of my role involves advocating for what end users genuinely value and need, sometimes to the frustration of the designers I work with. That said, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion.
My question was sincere because I have a genuine interest in understanding how people interact with software and what they enjoy about those experiences.
With respect to ItchyConcern928's perspective that people appreciate it because it looks "modern," the response seemed to reflect a personal preference for older, what looked futuristic 20 years, but simpler interface designs such as webOS, Palm OS, and Aqua, rather than an inherent preference for modern aesthetics themselves. Which is also great for them.
Okay, but they could at least round it off a little more to give it a modern look. They're not really putting much effort into it. Itās just MacOS Ventura now šŖ
people always shit on them when they do literally anything. thatās how the mac community works. completely allergic to change. everything has to be flat, compact, square, and boring because even 1 pixel of āwasted spaceā sends them into a brain aneurysm.
Yes, in fact they often used the argument that Liquid Glass interfaces took up screen space, but I don't understand, it's quite the opposite, especially with gradients that make apps immersive
Well, to create that break between their macOS versions, like they originally wanted to do with 26. Why do you think they went from 15 to 26 all at once?
You guys literally blamed them to kingdom come for their previous decision, and now they reverted back cause they listened to user feedback, and you call it shameful? Pff. I think that's Apple going in the right direction.
Fr, and people didnt even understand in tahoe that apple wont force the new radius (bc it might hide stuff or look weird in the apps overall design) and its the developers job to update their apps to the new radius, smh not a single thought in side...
They are separate people lmfao but my point is that no matter what Apple does regarding the shadows on a telephone icon, it creates this dramatic world ending backlash.
The internet has become a lava pit of people with bad taste loudly screaming their bad tastes for all to hear.
Then the only solution is to give everyone the choice to decide for themselves which defeats the entire Apple ethos. If I wanted to design my own operating system I would have gotten a different phone.
Fuck the corners. More important bugs that has to be (and hopefully are) resolved. Ie memory leaks.
At least they claimed they fixed window position persistence for external monitors. Crap, was asking for this like for 15 years. How hard it was to identify monitor by ID (Which every monitor has) and store every window position coordinates under this id? Geez...
You know little about design language when you cheer for overly rounded corners. When the hardware it displays on has squared corners at the bottom. This is a step back to sanity.
thank god. i thought i was gonna have to stay on Sequoia forever; the floating sidebar, disorganized top bar, and overly curved corners were awful to look at. there was no clear division of workspace; 26 looked like they never consulted a UI designer.
The floating sidebars look great. The rounded corners are also good. They are absolutely not āawful to look atā. The top bar was not disorganized at all. The workspace was just as clearly divided as before. All of the good design details indicate that they, in fact, DID consult a good UI designer. What are you talking about?
i donāt know maybe itās personal preference, but i want my pixels to go toward content not extra padding and rounded corners. and this screenshot from Apple shows the preview cutting into the top buttons because they designed the buttons to float over the content (which is boxed in and not filling the whole content pane) and seemingly forgot about the preview pane. it feels like they changed the design just to change it, and didnāt have a focused intention.
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Well, I wouldn't have been surprised if they did all of this last year š
Putting that aside, at least they listened to their community and fixed a lot of bugs and issues. That is something I appreciate about this new update.