Apple this week for the first time in more than a decade opened users access to the beta version of the new operating system for the Mac. Test version OS X Yosemite users can download wishing from the first million registered. Prior to this, Apple has discovered a mass-only access to the final version of the system. Professional designer and artist by training Min Ming Lo studied OS X Yosemite, noting the pros and cons of operating system interface.
The first thing that catches your eye when you boot your computer with OS X Yosemite - it's "flat" less realistic application icons in the Dock at the bottom of the control panel screen.Innovation can not be called unexpected - in the last year is the same design update received mobile platform iOS 7.
Another innovation of design, design approximating OS X to iOS, - it translucency auxiliary windows and panels. On the example programs for messaging, it looks like this: a list of messages in the left part of the application is semi-transparent and the message, which is currently viewed by the user is displayed on an opaque white background.
Similar "translucency" different auxiliary windows - for example, Spotlight search bar or full screen in Launchpad, where a transparent background in full-screen mode displays icons for all available programs. As conceived by Apple, matte elements are designed to provide an additional review of the desktop and other open programs.
Other external innovation - the upper control panel programs have become much thinner, and the icons on them - more understandable (this applies, in particular, the icons to "open the sidebar" or "file share"). It is noteworthy that the red and yellow buttons in the top left corner of the programs retained their function ("close" and "roll"), and the green button now allows you to expand the program in full screen - before it resizes the window.
So, the pros and cons of the updated interface OS X Yosemite:
Pros:
Updated logon screen:
Updated docking panel and application icons:
More clear and detailed status bar:
Helvetica Neue font instead of Lucida Grande:
More "happy» Finder:
"+" Button now opens a window to full screen:
Transparent interface:
More clean and clear elements of UI:
More space in the sidebar:
Cons:
New folder icons:
Other location Back / Forward buttons:
Shortcomings in interface design Safari:
Search string looks like a button:
"Flat" icon AirDrop:
